{"id":8607,"date":"2021-04-02T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2021-04-06T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:48:59","slug":"an-investigation-into-the-rates-of-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-during-the-first-6-weeks-of-the-2020-2021-academic-year-in-primary-and-post-primary-schools-in-cork-and-kerry-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/02\/an-investigation-into-the-rates-of-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-during-the-first-6-weeks-of-the-2020-2021-academic-year-in-primary-and-post-primary-schools-in-cork-and-kerry-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"An Investigation into the Rates of Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the First 6 Weeks of the 2020\u20132021 Academic Year in Primary and Post-Primary Schools in Cork and Kerry, Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The overall incidence of SARS-CoV-2 in-school transmission was 4% during the first 6 weeks of the 2020-2021 academic year in primary and post-primary schools located in Cork and Kerry counties in southwest Ireland, according to government health records. Positivity among students and staff were 3% and 7%, respectively. For roughly every week spent by an index case in school, one secondary case emerged on average. School-related cases accounted for 2% of all notified cases in the region during the observation period. Schools implemented several mitigation measures following reopening, such as use of face coverings, physical distancing, and enhanced cleaning protocols.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">White et al.\u00a0(Apr 1, 2021). An Investigation into the Rates of Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the First 6 Weeks of the 2020\u20132021 Academic Year in Primary and Post-Primary Schools in Cork and Kerry, Ireland. Irish Journal of Medical Science. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11845-021-02577-4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11845-021-02577-4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall incidence of SARS-CoV-2 in-school transmission was 4% during the first 6 weeks of the 2020-2021 academic year in primary and post-primary schools located in Cork and Kerry counties in southwest Ireland, according to government health records. Positivity among students and staff were 3% and 7%, respectively. For roughly every week spent by an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/02\/an-investigation-into-the-rates-of-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-during-the-first-6-weeks-of-the-2020-2021-academic-year-in-primary-and-post-primary-schools-in-cork-and-kerry-ireland\/\">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":[211,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-8607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-school","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","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=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8608,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions\/8608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}