{"id":9070,"date":"2020-08-14T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:44:49","slug":"risk-of-fomite-mediated-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-child-daycares-schools-and-offices-a-modeling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/risk-of-fomite-mediated-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-child-daycares-schools-and-offices-a-modeling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of Fomite-Mediated Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Child Daycares Schools and Offices a Modeling Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"44\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[preprint, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kraay<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. used a transmission modeling approach to simulate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fomite\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">transmission\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(via contaminated surfaces) under a variety of settings, surface types and cleaning frequencies. Unknown parameter values were derived from other pathogens with similar properties to SARS-CoV-2. Fomite R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0ranged from 2 in low risk venues (offices) to 20 in high-risk settings (daycares) and was higher than that of both influenza and rhinovirus.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The model indicates that h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ourly cleaning and disinfection alone could bring the fomite R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0below\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1 in some office settings, but not in daycares or schools. Cloth and other porous surfaces were unlikely to sustain transmission, suggesting cleaning and disinfection focus on non-porous surfaces.\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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kraay<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 13, 2020). Risk of Fomite-Mediated Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Child Daycares Schools and Offices a Modeling Study. Preprint downloaded August 14\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">from\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.10.20171629\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.10.20171629<\/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>[preprint, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Kraay\u00a0et al. used a transmission modeling approach to simulate\u00a0fomite\u00a0transmission\u00a0of SARS-CoV-2\u00a0(via contaminated surfaces) under a variety of settings, surface types and cleaning frequencies. Unknown parameter values were derived from other pathogens with similar properties to SARS-CoV-2. Fomite R0\u00a0ranged from 2 in low risk venues (offices) to 20 in high-risk settings (daycares) and was higher&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/risk-of-fomite-mediated-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-child-daycares-schools-and-offices-a-modeling-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":[23],"class_list":["post-9070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070","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=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}