{"id":5105,"date":"2024-03-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2024-03-23T02:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T06:47:09","slug":"probe-links-covid-spread-to-school-bus-riders-from-sick-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/probe-links-covid-spread-to-school-bus-riders-from-sick-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe links COVID spread to school bus riders from sick driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proportion of children infected with COVID-19 while riding a bus to a school in Germany was about four times higher than in peers who didn\u2019t ride the bus, illustrating efficient transmission during multiple short rides on public transport, finds a study published this week in <em>Emerging Infectious Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by researchers from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and public health officials used surveillance data, lab analyses, case-patient and household interviews, a cohort study of all students in grades 1 to 4, and a cohort study of bus riders to investigate a 2021 COVID-19 outbreak that involved an infected bus driver and his passengers. The rides lasted 9 to 18 minutes, and multiple schools in a single district were involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proportion of children infected with COVID-19 while riding a bus to a school in Germany was about four times higher than in peers who didn\u2019t ride the bus, illustrating efficient transmission during multiple short rides on public transport, finds a study published this week in <em>Emerging Infectious Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by researchers from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and public health officials used surveillance data, lab analyses, case-patient and household interviews, a cohort study of all students in grades 1 to 4, and a cohort study of bus riders to investigate a 2021 COVID-19 outbreak that involved an infected bus driver and his passengers. The rides lasted 9 to 18 minutes, and multiple schools in a single district were involved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/probe-links-covid-spread-to-school-bus-riders-from-sick-driver\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Probe links COVID spread to school bus riders from sick driver<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[416,979,26,18,405,334,397,44,304,8,14,980,62,202,43],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airborne-transmission","tag-buses","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-indoor-air-quality","tag-outbreaks","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-school-buses","tag-schools","tag-students","tag-ventilation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}