Characteristics of COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks at Child Care Facilities — District of Columbia, July–December 2020
| العنوان: | Characteristics of COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks at Child Care Facilities — District of Columbia, July–December 2020 |
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| المؤلفون: | LaQuandra Nesbitt, Fern Johnson-Clarke, Christine Kim, Anil T. Mangla, Preetha Iyengar, Shreya Khuntia, Azam Elnour, Sasha McGee |
| المصدر: | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |
| بيانات النشر: | Centers for Disease Control MMWR Office, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Health (social science), Epidemiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, MEDLINE, Risk Assessment, Masking (Electronic Health Record), Disease Outbreaks, 03 medical and health sciences, COVID-19 Testing, 0302 clinical medicine, Health Information Management, 030225 pediatrics, medicine, Humans, Full Report, 030212 general & internal medicine, Statistics & numerical data, Child, SARS-CoV-2, Transmission (medicine), business.industry, Public health, COVID-19, Outbreak, Child Day Care Centers, General Medicine, Community-Acquired Infections, Child, Preschool, Family medicine, District of Columbia, business, Risk assessment |
| الوصف: | The occurrence of cases of COVID-19 reported by child care facilities among children, teachers, and staff members is correlated with the level of community spread (1,2). To describe characteristics of COVID-19 cases at child care facilities and facility adherence to guidance and recommendations, the District of Columbia (DC) Department of Health (DC Health) and CDC reviewed COVID-19 case reports associated with child care facilities submitted to DC Health and publicly available data from the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) during July 1-December 31, 2020. Among 469 licensed child care facilities, 112 (23.9%) submitted 269 reports documenting 316 laboratory-confirmed cases and three additional cases identified through DC Health's contact tracers. Outbreaks associated with child care facilities,† defined as two or more laboratory-confirmed and epidemiologically linked cases at a facility within a 14-day period (3), occurred in 27 (5.8%) facilities and accounted for nearly one half (156; 48.9%) of total cases. Among the 319 total cases, 180 (56.4%) were among teachers or staff members. The majority (56.4%) of facilities reported cases to DC Health on the same day that they were notified of a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, by staff members or parents.§ Facilities were at increased risk for an outbreak if they had been operating for |
| تدمد: | 1545-861X 0149-2195 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::689a71e0eddb983e644001282cde7fdb https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7020a3 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....689a71e0eddb983e644001282cde7fdb |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1545861X 01492195 |
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