{"id":8711,"date":"2020-08-04T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:02:27","slug":"transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-australian-educational-settings-a-prospective-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-australian-educational-settings-a-prospective-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Australian Educational Settings: A Prospective Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"47\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Transmission between laboratory-confirmed pediatric (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2264<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">18) and adult COVID-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9 cases from schools and early childhood education care (ECEC) setting and close contacts was examined in South Wales, Australia.\u00a0 Close contacts (n=1448) of infectious cases (n=27; n=12 children, n=15 adults) were followed to measure transmission.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lose contacts were quarantine<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d at home\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for 14 days, monitored, and offered testing if symptomatic.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he secondary attack rate from cases to contacts was 0.3% from child to child, 1% from child to adult, 1.5% from adult to child, and 4.4% from adult to adult<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with 44% of close contacts tested<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Secondary transmission occurred in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16% of settings<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among facilities\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">where<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0asymptomatic contacts\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">also tested,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% developed COVID-19 symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">secondary attack rate was 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% among child contacts<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">vs<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a02<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8% among adult contacts.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Macartney et al. (Aug 2020). Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Australian Educational Settings: A Prospective Cohort Study. The Lancet Child &amp; Adolescent Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(20)30251-0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(20)30251-0<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transmission between laboratory-confirmed pediatric (\u226418) and adult COVID-19 cases from schools and early childhood education care (ECEC) setting and close contacts was examined in South Wales, Australia.\u00a0 Close contacts (n=1448) of infectious cases (n=27; n=12 children, n=15 adults) were followed to measure transmission.\u00a0Close contacts were quarantined at home\u00a0for 14 days, monitored, and offered testing if&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-australian-educational-settings-a-prospective-cohort-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-8711","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\/8711","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=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8712,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}