{"id":8574,"date":"2020-07-30T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:10:35","slug":"the-risk-of-covid-19-transmission-in-train-passengers-an-epidemiological-and-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/the-risk-of-covid-19-transmission-in-train-passengers-an-epidemiological-and-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risk of COVID-19 Transmission in Train Passengers: An Epidemiological and Modelling Study"},"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\">The risk of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">transmission among train passengers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">varied considerably\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">depending on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">shared\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">travel time and seat location<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, with a peak attack rate of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% among passengers who were sitting adjacent to an index case. Transmission risk increased with longer duration of co-travel, increasing by 1.3% per hour for adjacent passengers. These findings are based on an\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">analy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sis of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the spatial and temporal distribution of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0transmission\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">index patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">high-speed train<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in China\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=2,334) and close contacts<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">72,093<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0who had co-travel times of 0-8 hours<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hu et al. (July 2020). The Risk of COVID-19 Transmission in Train Passengers: An Epidemiological and Modelling Study. Clinical Infectious Disease<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">s<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1057\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1057<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0transmission among train passengers\u00a0varied considerably\u00a0depending on\u00a0shared\u00a0travel time and seat location, with a peak attack rate of\u00a04% among passengers who were sitting adjacent to an index case. Transmission risk increased with longer duration of co-travel, increasing by 1.3% per hour for adjacent passengers. These findings are based on an\u00a0analysis of\u00a0the spatial and temporal distribution&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/30\/the-risk-of-covid-19-transmission-in-train-passengers-an-epidemiological-and-modelling-study\/\">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-8574","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\/8574","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=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8575,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/8575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}