{"id":9002,"date":"2020-08-12T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:16:19","slug":"role-of-children-in-household-transmission-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/12\/role-of-children-in-household-transmission-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of Children in Household Transmission of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 248 household contacts of 107 pediatric\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 index cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 17% of the contacts (n=41)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were subsequently SARS-CoV-2 positive (average follow-up of 11 days)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">H<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">owever<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0all but one contact was determined to have had the same exposure as the pediatric index case.\u00a0<\/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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Index cases were isolated in hospitals or community treatment centers after diagnosis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the case needed direct care by an uninfected guardian, that guardian was provided with an N95 mask, gloves, full body suit, and goggles.\u00a0<\/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<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the one positive contact that didn\u2019t share an exposure with the index case, the pediatric index case was determined to be the most likely source of exposure, constituting a secondary attack rate of 0.5% [<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">EDITORIAL NOTE: while this secondary attack rate is low, index cases were strictly isolated after their diagnosis was confirmed. C<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">orresponding secondary attack rates<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from adult index cases are not presented in this study.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">]<\/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\">Kim et al. (Aug 2020). Role of Children in Household Transmission of COVID-19. Archives of Disease in Childhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/archdischild-2020-319910\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/archdischild-2020-319910<\/span><\/a><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>Among 248 household contacts of 107 pediatric\u00a0COVID-19 index cases, 17% of the contacts (n=41)\u00a0were subsequently SARS-CoV-2 positive (average follow-up of 11 days).\u00a0However,\u00a0all but one contact was determined to have had the same exposure as the pediatric index case.\u00a0\u00a0 Index cases were isolated in hospitals or community treatment centers after diagnosis.\u00a0If\u00a0the case needed direct care by&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/12\/role-of-children-in-household-transmission-of-covid-19\/\">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-9002","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\/9002","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=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9003,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions\/9003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}