{"id":8945,"date":"2021-04-12T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:34:24","slug":"effects-of-weather-related-social-distancing-on-city-scale-transmission-of-respiratory-viruses-a-retrospective-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/effects-of-weather-related-social-distancing-on-city-scale-transmission-of-respiratory-viruses-a-retrospective-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Weather-Related Social Distancing on City-Scale Transmission of Respiratory Viruses: A Retrospective Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residual samples <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">analyzed from patients <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">evaluated for acute respiratory illness <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in the Seattle metropolitan area <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Seattle Flu Study after unusually high snowfall in Washington State in February 2019 showed that disrupt<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ion in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contact patterns reduced effective contact rates by 16 to 95% and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reduced <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cumulative disease incidence through the remainder of the season by 3 to 9%. The extreme snow event occurred close to the predicted peak of seasonal epidemics of several viruses <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(i.e, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">influenza A\/H1N1 and RSV<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with final attack rates reduced by 7.6 to 9.2%. Incidence reductions were greatest for viruses that were peaking when the disruption occurred. The authors suggest <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">these findings may indicate that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shorter periods of social distancing behaviors <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">may also<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> slow viral transmission<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jackson et al.\u00a0(Apr 2021). Effects of Weather-Related Social Distancing on City-Scale Transmission of Respiratory Viruses: A Retrospective Cohort Study. BMC Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12879-021-06028-4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12879-021-06028-4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residual samples analyzed from patients evaluated for acute respiratory illness in the Seattle metropolitan area in the Seattle Flu Study after unusually high snowfall in Washington State in February 2019 showed that disruption in contact patterns reduced effective contact rates by 16 to 95% and reduced cumulative disease incidence through the remainder of the season&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/effects-of-weather-related-social-distancing-on-city-scale-transmission-of-respiratory-viruses-a-retrospective-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":[38,68],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","tag-washington","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}