{"id":9487,"date":"2021-04-29T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9487"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:56:49","slug":"covid-19-among-workers-in-the-seafood-processing-industry-implications-for-prevention-measures-alaska-march-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/29\/covid-19-among-workers-in-the-seafood-processing-industry-implications-for-prevention-measures-alaska-march-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Among Workers in the Seafood Processing Industry: Implications for Prevention Measures \u2014 Alaska, March\u2013October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A review of COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in the Alaska fishing industry found that entry quarantine and testing might have reduced introduction of the virus to seafood processing facilities and vessels. A CDC field review found that among 132 non-outbreak associated cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in seafood processing industry workers in Alaska from March to October 2020, 81 (61%) occurred during entry quarantine at an onshore facility. 72 (89%) of these cases were part of 12 clusters comprising up to 23 cases (median=3 cases).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the 13 distinct outbreaks identified in onshore facilities or vessels, 6 outbreaks (median = 6 cases) appeared to have originated in an entry quarantine group and then spread, causing an additional 69 cases. The other 7 outbreaks of unknown origin were responsible for 470 other cases. As a result of these outbreaks, Alaskan officials revised requirements for risk mitigation in the fishing industry in November 2020, including restricting quarantine groups to \u226410 persons.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Porter et al.\u00a0(Apr 30, 2021). COVID-19 Among Workers in the Seafood Processing Industry: Implications for Prevention Measures \u2014 Alaska, March\u2013October 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7017a4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7017a4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in the Alaska fishing industry found that entry quarantine and testing might have reduced introduction of the virus to seafood processing facilities and vessels. A CDC field review found that among 132 non-outbreak associated cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in seafood processing industry workers in Alaska from March to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/29\/covid-19-among-workers-in-the-seafood-processing-industry-implications-for-prevention-measures-alaska-march-october-2020\/\">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":[150,37,38],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-9487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-congregate-settings","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-transmission","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9487","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=9487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9487\/revisions\/9488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9487"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}