{"id":8176,"date":"2021-03-31T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:43:25","slug":"increased-transmissibility-of-the-b-1-1-7-sars-cov-2-variant-evidence-from-contact-tracing-data-in-oslo-january-to-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/31\/increased-transmissibility-of-the-b-1-1-7-sars-cov-2-variant-evidence-from-contact-tracing-data-in-oslo-january-to-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased Transmissibility of the B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2 Variant Evidence from Contact Tracing Data in Oslo January to February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Within households in Norway, the secondary attack rate of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage was 60% higher than that of other variants. The study used contact tracing data from 415 index cases and 2,718 of their close contacts from January 4 to February 28, 2021 to estimate transmissibility and found an absolute increase in the reproduction number of 0.19 compared to other variants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lindstr\u00f8m et al. (Mar 30, 2021). Increased Transmissibility of the B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2 Variant Evidence from Contact Tracing Data in Oslo January to February 2021. Pre-print downloaded Mar 31 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.29.21254122\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.29.21254122<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Within households in Norway, the secondary attack rate of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage was 60% higher than that of other variants. The study used contact tracing data from 415 index cases and 2,718 of their close contacts from January 4 to February 28, 2021 to estimate transmissibility and found an absolute increase&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/31\/increased-transmissibility-of-the-b-1-1-7-sars-cov-2-variant-evidence-from-contact-tracing-data-in-oslo-january-to-february-2021\/\">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":[38,159],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","tag-variants","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","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=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8177,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}