{"id":8336,"date":"2020-07-17T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:25:02","slug":"contact-tracing-during-coronavirus-disease-outbreak-south-korea-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/17\/contact-tracing-during-coronavirus-disease-outbreak-south-korea-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">59,073 contacts of 5,706 COVID-19 index\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cases\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in South Korea\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">monitored for an average of 9.9 days after index case diagnosis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 12%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of household contacts acquired COVID-19, versus\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% for non-household contacts.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Probability of a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">contact being positive was highest for household contacts when the index case was 10-19 years old<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(19%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">; however<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0only\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2% of index cases were in this age group. Among<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0non-household contacts<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the highest proportion of positive contacts was among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">index\u00a0case<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0who were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">70 years of age or older.\u00a0\u00a0\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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Park et al. (Oct 2020). Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020. Emerging Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2610.201315\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2610.201315<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>Among\u00a059,073 contacts of 5,706 COVID-19 index\u00a0cases\u00a0in South Korea\u00a0monitored for an average of 9.9 days after index case diagnosis, 12%\u00a0of household contacts acquired COVID-19, versus\u00a02% for non-household contacts.\u00a0Probability of a\u00a0contact being positive was highest for household contacts when the index case was 10-19 years old\u00a0(19%); however,\u00a0only\u00a02% of index cases were in this age group. Among\u00a0non-household contacts,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/17\/contact-tracing-during-coronavirus-disease-outbreak-south-korea-2020\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-8336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336","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=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}