{"id":9579,"date":"2021-05-04T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:28:43","slug":"clinical-characteristics-and-transmission-of-covid-19-in-children-and-youths-during-3-waves-of-outbreaks-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/04\/clinical-characteristics-and-transmission-of-covid-19-in-children-and-youths-during-3-waves-of-outbreaks-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Characteristics and Transmission of COVID-19 in Children and Youths During 3 Waves of Outbreaks in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among 397 individuals aged \u226418 years with confirmed COVID-19 during the first 3 waves in Hong Kong (January to December 2020), imported infections comprised 79% and 93% of all cases during the first and second wave, respectively, but domestic infections comprised 73% of all cases during the third wave. Overall among domestic infections, 91% had a known history of contact with an infected individual, of which 90% were family members. While schools were intermittently closed nationally during the study period, only 3 cases were associated with in-school transmission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chua et al.\u00a0(May 3, 2021). Clinical Characteristics and Transmission of COVID-19 in Children and Youths During 3 Waves of Outbreaks in Hong Kong. JAMA Network Open. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.8824\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.8824<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 397 individuals aged \u226418 years with confirmed COVID-19 during the first 3 waves in Hong Kong (January to December 2020), imported infections comprised 79% and 93% of all cases during the first and second wave, respectively, but domestic infections comprised 73% of all cases during the third wave. Overall among domestic infections, 91% had&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/04\/clinical-characteristics-and-transmission-of-covid-19-in-children-and-youths-during-3-waves-of-outbreaks-in-hong-kong\/\">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":[41,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","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=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9580,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}