Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020

An intense debate on school closures to control the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing in Europe. We prospectively examined transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from confirmed paediatric cases in Norwegian primary schools between August and November 2020. All in-school contacts were systematically tested twice duri...

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Autores principales: Brandal, Lin T, Ofitserova, Trine S, Meijerink, Hinta, Rykkvin, Rikard, Lund, Hilde M, Hungnes, Olav, Greve-Isdahl, Margrethe, Bragstad, Karoline, Nygård, Karin, Winje, Brita A
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2021
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7791599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33413743
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011
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author Brandal, Lin T
Ofitserova, Trine S
Meijerink, Hinta
Rykkvin, Rikard
Lund, Hilde M
Hungnes, Olav
Greve-Isdahl, Margrethe
Bragstad, Karoline
Nygård, Karin
Winje, Brita A
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Ofitserova, Trine S
Meijerink, Hinta
Rykkvin, Rikard
Lund, Hilde M
Hungnes, Olav
Greve-Isdahl, Margrethe
Bragstad, Karoline
Nygård, Karin
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description An intense debate on school closures to control the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing in Europe. We prospectively examined transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from confirmed paediatric cases in Norwegian primary schools between August and November 2020. All in-school contacts were systematically tested twice during their quarantine period. With preventive measures implemented in schools, we found minimal child-to-child (0.9%, 2/234) and child-to-adult (1.7%, 1/58) transmission, supporting that under 14 year olds are not the drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
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spelling pubmed-77915992021-01-11 Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020 Brandal, Lin T Ofitserova, Trine S Meijerink, Hinta Rykkvin, Rikard Lund, Hilde M Hungnes, Olav Greve-Isdahl, Margrethe Bragstad, Karoline Nygård, Karin Winje, Brita A Euro Surveill Rapid Communication An intense debate on school closures to control the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing in Europe. We prospectively examined transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from confirmed paediatric cases in Norwegian primary schools between August and November 2020. All in-school contacts were systematically tested twice during their quarantine period. With preventive measures implemented in schools, we found minimal child-to-child (0.9%, 2/234) and child-to-adult (1.7%, 1/58) transmission, supporting that under 14 year olds are not the drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2021-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7791599/ /pubmed/33413743 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2021. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Brandal, Lin T
Ofitserova, Trine S
Meijerink, Hinta
Rykkvin, Rikard
Lund, Hilde M
Hungnes, Olav
Greve-Isdahl, Margrethe
Bragstad, Karoline
Nygård, Karin
Winje, Brita A
Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020
title Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020
title_full Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020
title_fullStr Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020
title_full_unstemmed Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020
title_short Minimal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from paediatric COVID-19 cases in primary schools, Norway, August to November 2020
title_sort minimal transmission of sars-cov-2 from paediatric covid-19 cases in primary schools, norway, august to november 2020
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7791599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33413743
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011
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