{"id":894,"date":"2020-09-14T17:54:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=894"},"modified":"2020-09-14T17:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:54:39","slug":"high-covid-19-transmission-potential-associated-with-re-opening-universities-can-be-mitigated-with-layered-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/14\/high-covid-19-transmission-potential-associated-with-re-opening-universities-can-be-mitigated-with-layered-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"High COVID-19 Transmission Potential Associated with Re-Opening Universities Can Be Mitigated with Layered Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A modeling study of university reopening in the UK compared transmission dynamics under different assumptions about the infectiousness of asymptomatic patients. Assuming an infectious period of 5 days, the authors report that if asymptomatic cases are 50% as infectious as symptomatic cases, then 20% undergraduates would be infected. If asymptomatic cases are equally as infectious as symptomatic cases, 94% would be infected. First-year students are predicted to be the main drivers of transmission due to high numbers of contacts in communal residences. Reduced face-to-face interactions and reduced living circles could effectively decrease infections by 75%. The model predicts that mass testing of students is not the most effective option due to the cost of large-scale self-isolation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brooks-Pollock et al. (Sept 11, 2020). High COVID-19 Transmission Potential Associated with Re-Opening Universities Can Be Mitigated with Layered Interventions. Pre-print downloaded September 14 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.10.20189696\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.10.20189696<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A modeling study of university reopening in the UK compared transmission dynamics under different assumptions about the infectiousness of asymptomatic patients. Assuming an infectious period of 5 days, the authors report that if asymptomatic cases are 50% as infectious as symptomatic cases, then 20% undergraduates would be infected. If asymptomatic cases are&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/14\/high-covid-19-transmission-potential-associated-with-re-opening-universities-can-be-mitigated-with-layered-interventions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}