{"id":9896,"date":"2021-05-19T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9896"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:42:05","slug":"sars-cov-2-superspread-in-fitness-center-hong-kong-china-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/19\/sars-cov-2-superspread-in-fitness-center-hong-kong-china-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Superspread in Fitness Center, Hong Kong, China, March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A SARS-CoV-2 superspreading event in a fitness center in Hong Kong that resulted in 102 cases likely occurred due to lack of mask wearing during exercise and poor ventilation. The outbreak was detected following investigation of a fitness trainer who worked at the facility who tested positive in a voluntary screening program. 45% of cases were asymptomatic, which is notably higher than that of all confirmed cases in Hong Kong (30%). Viral sequencing of respiratory samples from 59 of the cases found that all samples genetically clustered together, confirming that the event was caused by a single virus introduction. None of the cases had received a COVID-19 vaccine prior to the outbreak.\u00a0 The authors note their findings highlight the risk of transmission in confined spaces with poor ventilation when masks are not worn.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chu et al.\u00a0(May 18, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Superspread in Fitness Center, Hong Kong, China, March 2021. Emerging Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/27\/8\/21-0833_article\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/27\/8\/21-0833_article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SARS-CoV-2 superspreading event in a fitness center in Hong Kong that resulted in 102 cases likely occurred due to lack of mask wearing during exercise and poor ventilation. The outbreak was detected following investigation of a fitness trainer who worked at the facility who tested positive in a voluntary screening program. 45% of cases&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/19\/sars-cov-2-superspread-in-fitness-center-hong-kong-china-march-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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9896","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\/9896","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=9896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9897,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions\/9897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9896"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}