{"id":9919,"date":"2021-05-20T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2021-05-21T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:18:44","slug":"characteristics-of-covid-19-cases-and-outbreaks-at-child-care-facilities-district-of-columbia-july-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/20\/characteristics-of-covid-19-cases-and-outbreaks-at-child-care-facilities-district-of-columbia-july-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Characteristics of COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks at Child Care Facilities \u2014 District of Columbia, July\u2013December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">24% of 469 licensed childcare facilities in Washington, DC reported at least one SARS-CoV-2 infection from July to December 2020, but facility-associated outbreaks (defined as two or more linked cases within a facility) only occurred in 6% of facilities. Among the 316 total cases, 56% were among teachers or staff and 49% occurred during outbreaks. Facilities were at increased risk for an outbreak if they had been operating for &lt;3 years (RR=3.3; 95%CI 1.4-7.8), if symptomatic persons sought testing \u22653 days after symptom onset (RR=2.0; 95%CI 1.0-4.0), or if persons with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections were at the facility (RR=2.1; 95%CI 1.1-4.0). 100% of facilities reported mandatory mask wearing by teachers and staff and more than 90% limited class sizes and sent symptomatic employees home immediately.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kim et al.\u00a0(May 21, 2021). Characteristics of COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks at Child Care Facilities \u2014 District of Columbia, July\u2013December 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7020a3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7020a3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24% of 469 licensed childcare facilities in Washington, DC reported at least one SARS-CoV-2 infection from July to December 2020, but facility-associated outbreaks (defined as two or more linked cases within a facility) only occurred in 6% of facilities. Among the 316 total cases, 56% were among teachers or staff and 49% occurred during outbreaks&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/20\/characteristics-of-covid-19-cases-and-outbreaks-at-child-care-facilities-district-of-columbia-july-december-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":[35,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919","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=9919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9920,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions\/9920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}