{"id":9272,"date":"2021-04-19T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9272"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:56:48","slug":"sars-cov-2-transmission-in-a-georgia-school-district-united-states-december-2020-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/19\/sars-cov-2-transmission-in-a-georgia-school-district-united-states-december-2020-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in a Georgia School District \u2014 United States, December 2020\u2013January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a Georgia public school district found that indoor sports may pose a high infection risk in school settings. From December 1, 2020 to January 22, 2021, 85 SARS-CoV-2 index cases and 1,119 contacts were identified by school and public health officials, with 59 contacts testing positive. Among 55 contacts who tested positive with available symptom data, 31 (56%) were asymptomatic. The highest secondary attack rates occurred in indoor, high-contact sports settings (24%), staff meetings\/lunches (18%), and elementary school classrooms (10%). The secondary attack rate was also higher for staff (13%) versus student index cases (6%) and for symptomatic (11%) versus asymptomatic index cases (3%).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gettings et al.\u00a0(Apr 17, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in a Georgia School District \u2014 United States, December 2020\u2013January 2021. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab332\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab332<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a Georgia public school district found that indoor sports may pose a high infection risk in school settings. From December 1, 2020 to January 22, 2021, 85 SARS-CoV-2 index cases and 1,119 contacts were identified by school and public health officials, with 59 contacts testing positive. Among 55 contacts&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/19\/sars-cov-2-transmission-in-a-georgia-school-district-united-states-december-2020-january-2021\/\">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":[211],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-school","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","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=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9273,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/9273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}