{"id":7947,"date":"2020-07-06T20:15:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:16:21","slug":"the-role-of-children-in-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-a-rapid-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/06\/the-role-of-children-in-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-a-rapid-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Children in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Rapid Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Li et al. conducted a rapid review of 16 studies investigating the role of children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Two\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">studies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reported transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from infected children (1 with a 3-month-old whose parents developed symptomatic COVID-19 seven days after caring for the infant; 1 with two children who may have contracted COVID-19 from the initial cases at a school in New South Wales).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Six\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">studies presented indirect evidence\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the potential for SARS-CoV-2 transmission by children, 3 of which found prolonged virus shedding in stool.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Two\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">studies reported outbreaks of COVID-19 in school settings<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. O<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ne\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">study was a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0case report of a child attending classes\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that did not result in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infecting any other pupils or staff.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">evidence is limited<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">urther seroprevalence studies are needed to establish whether children are less frequently infected or\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">less\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infect<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ous<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0than adults.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Li et al. (June 29, 2020). The Role of Children in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Rapid Review. Journal of Global Health.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7189\/jogh.10.011101\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7189\/jogh.10.011101<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li et al. conducted a rapid review of 16 studies investigating the role of children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0Two\u00a0studies\u00a0reported transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from infected children (1 with a 3-month-old whose parents developed symptomatic COVID-19 seven days after caring for the infant; 1 with two children who may have contracted COVID-19 from the initial cases&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/06\/the-role-of-children-in-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-a-rapid-review\/\">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":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947","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=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}