{"id":9300,"date":"2021-04-20T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T20:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:08:18","slug":"attack-rates-amongst-household-members-of-outpatients-with-confirmed-covid-19-in-bergen-norway-a-case-ascertained-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/20\/attack-rates-amongst-household-members-of-outpatients-with-confirmed-covid-19-in-bergen-norway-a-case-ascertained-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack Rates amongst Household Members of Outpatients with Confirmed COVID-19 in Bergen, Norway: A Case-Ascertained Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The overall SARS-CoV-2 household attack rate was 45% among 112 index cases and 179 total household contacts in a study conducted in Norway from February to April 2020. Attack rates were equally high in children (48%) and young adults (42%). The attack rate was not associated with household size or with whether or not the household included children. Attack rates were as high as 42% among symptomatic members with a negative PCR test.\u00a0 Seropositivity for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies 6-8 weeks after inclusion in the study identified more infections than PCR testing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kuwelker et al.\u00a0(Mar 31, 2021). Attack Rates amongst Household Members of Outpatients with Confirmed COVID-19 in Bergen, Norway: A Case-Ascertained Study. The Lancet Regional Health &#8211; Europe. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.lanepe.2020.100014\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.lanepe.2020.100014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall SARS-CoV-2 household attack rate was 45% among 112 index cases and 179 total household contacts in a study conducted in Norway from February to April 2020. Attack rates were equally high in children (48%) and young adults (42%). The attack rate was not associated with household size or with whether or not the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/20\/attack-rates-amongst-household-members-of-outpatients-with-confirmed-covid-19-in-bergen-norway-a-case-ascertained-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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300","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=9300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9301,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions\/9301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}