{"id":8734,"date":"2020-08-05T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:16:06","slug":"stepwise-school-opening-online-and-off-line-and-an-impact-on-the-epidemiology-of-covid-19-in-the-pediatric-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/stepwise-school-opening-online-and-off-line-and-an-impact-on-the-epidemiology-of-covid-19-in-the-pediatric-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepwise School Opening Online and Off-Line and an Impact on the Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the Pediatric Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"15\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Yoon et al. observed no increase in pediatric COVID-19 cases following school re-openings in South Korea. School openings were delayed from March 2020. Instead, online classes began on April 9 and in-person classes started between May 20 to June 8 in four steps by different grades. As of July 11, among the 11,000 students and staff screened for SARS-CoV-2, only 45 children from 40 schools were diagnosed with COVID-19 after in-person classes started, 25 (56%) of whom were presumed to be infected by family members. Notably, as of July 11, only 964 Korean children age \u226419 years had been diagnosed with COVID-19 nationwide, making up around 7% of all diagnoses.<\/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\">Yoon et al. (Aug 4, 2020). Stepwise School Opening Online and Off-Line and an Impact on the Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the Pediatric Population.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded on August 5 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.03.20165589\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.03.20165589<\/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;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Yoon et al. observed no increase in pediatric COVID-19 cases following school re-openings in South Korea. School openings were delayed from March 2020. Instead, online classes began on April 9 and in-person classes started between May 20 to June 8 in four steps by different grades. As of July 11, among the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/stepwise-school-opening-online-and-off-line-and-an-impact-on-the-epidemiology-of-covid-19-in-the-pediatric-population\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-8734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734","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=8734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}