{"id":7161,"date":"2021-03-19T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T00:44:30","slug":"pilot-investigation-of-sars-cov-2-secondary-transmission-in-kindergarten-through-grade-12-schools-implementing-mitigation-strategies-st-louis-county-and-city-of-springfield-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/pilot-investigation-of-sars-cov-2-secondary-transmission-in-kindergarten-through-grade-12-schools-implementing-mitigation-strategies-st-louis-county-and-city-of-springfield-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Secondary Transmission in Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools Implementing Mitigation Strategies \u2014 St.\u00a0Louis County and City of Springfield, Missouri, December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">School-based SARS-CoV-2 secondary transmission occurred in 2% of 102 close contacts identified in investigations of cases that occurred in K-12 schools (n=22) in Springfield and St. Louis County, Missouri. All schools offered in person-learning, with 21,342 (70%) students attending in-person at least part-time. While schools in both counties implemented COVID-19 mitigation strategies, schools in Springfield implemented a modified quarantine policy permitting in-person learning for student close contacts aged \u226418 years who had a school-associated contact with a person with COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A total of 37 students, teachers, and staff members with SARS-CoV-2 infection and 156 of their school-based contacts were interviewed and offered testing. 2% of 102 contacts who received testing had positive results, indicating probable school-based transmission. 42 student contacts in Springfield were permitted to continue in-person classes under the modified quarantine, none of whom received a positive test result.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dawson et al.\u00a0(Mar 19, 2021). Pilot Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Secondary Transmission in Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools Implementing Mitigation Strategies \u2014 St.\u00a0Louis County and City of Springfield, Missouri, December 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7012e4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7012e4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School-based SARS-CoV-2 secondary transmission occurred in 2% of 102 close contacts identified in investigations of cases that occurred in K-12 schools (n=22) in Springfield and St. Louis County, Missouri. All schools offered in person-learning, with 21,342 (70%) students attending in-person at least part-time. While schools in both counties implemented COVID-19 mitigation strategies, schools in Springfield&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/pilot-investigation-of-sars-cov-2-secondary-transmission-in-kindergarten-through-grade-12-schools-implementing-mitigation-strategies-st-louis-county-and-city-of-springfield-missouri\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7162,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}