{"id":8660,"date":"2020-07-31T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:29:00","slug":"sars-cov-2-transmission-and-infection-among-attendees-of-an-overnight-camp-georgia-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/31\/sars-cov-2-transmission-and-infection-among-attendees-of-an-overnight-camp-georgia-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Infection Among Attendees of an Overnight Camp \u2014 Georgia, June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An outbreak investigation in an overnight camp in Georgia found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">evidence of widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">children of all ages.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 tests were available for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">344<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of 597 camp attendees<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of whom\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">260 (76%) were positive. The overall attack rate was 44%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(260 of 597)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The attack rate was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">51% among those aged 6\u201310 years, 44% among those aged 11\u201317 years, and 33% among those aged 18\u201321 years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The camp involved large groups sleeping in the same cabin and engaging in singing, cheering, and both indoor and outdoor activities. Use of cloth masks was not required among campers. All trainees, staff members, and campers provided documentation of a negative viral SARS-CoV-2 test \u226412 days before arriving.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An ongoing investigation into specific exposures associated with infection, illness course, and secondary transmission to household members is being conducted.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Szablewski CM, Chang KT, Brown MM, et al. (July2020). SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Infection Among Attendees of an Overnight Camp \u2014 Georgia, June 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6931e1<\/span><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>An outbreak investigation in an overnight camp in Georgia found\u00a0evidence of widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among\u00a0children of all ages.\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 tests were available for\u00a0344\u00a0of 597 camp attendees,\u00a0of whom\u00a0260 (76%) were positive. The overall attack rate was 44%\u00a0(260 of 597). The attack rate was\u00a051% among those aged 6\u201310 years, 44% among those aged 11\u201317 years, and 33%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/31\/sars-cov-2-transmission-and-infection-among-attendees-of-an-overnight-camp-georgia-june-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":[21],"class_list":["post-8660","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\/8660","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=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}