التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Schools as a Framework for COVID-19 Epidemiological Surveillance of Children in Catalonia, Spain: A Population-Based Study |
| المؤلفون: |
Perramon, Aida, Soriano-Arandes, Antoni, Pino, David, Lazcano, Uxue, Andrés, Cristina, Català, Martí, Gatell, Anna, Carulla, Mireia, Canadell, Dolors, Ricós, Gemma, Riera-Bosch, M. Teresa, Burgaya, Silvia, Salvadó, Olga, Cantero, Javier, Vilà, Mònica, Poblet, Miriam, Sánchez, Almudena, Ristol, Anna M., Serrano, Pepe, Antón, Andrés, Prats, Clara, Soler-Palacin, Pere |
| المصدر: |
Frontiers in Pediatrics ; volume 9 ; ISSN 2296-2360 |
| بيانات النشر: |
Frontiers Media SA |
| سنة النشر: |
2021 |
| المجموعة: |
Frontiers (Publisher - via CrossRef) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health |
| الوصف: |
Objective: We describe and analyze the childhood (<18 years) COVID-19 incidence in Catalonia, Spain, during the first 36 weeks of the 2020-2021 school-year and to compare it with the incidence in adults. Methods: Data on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests were obtained from the Catalan Agency for Quality and Health Assessment. Overall, 7,203,663 SARS-CoV-2 tests were performed, of which 491,819 were positive (6.8%). We collected epidemiological data including age-group incidence, diagnostic effort, and positivity rate per 100,000 population to analyze the relative results for these epidemiological characteristics. Results: Despite a great diagnostic effort among children, with a difference of 1,154 tests per 100,000 population in relation to adults, the relative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 for <18 years was slightly lower than for the general population, and it increased with the age of the children. Additionally, positivity of SARS-CoV-2 in children (5.7%) was lower than in adults (7.2%), especially outside vacation periods, when children were attending school (4.9%). Conclusions: A great diagnostic effort, including mass screening and systematic whole-group contact tracing when a positive was detected in the class group, was associated with childhood SARS-CoV-2 incidence and lower positivity rate in the 2020-2021 school year. Schools have been a key tool in epidemiological surveillance rather than being drivers of SARS-CoV-2 incidence in Catalonia, Spain. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: |
unknown |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fped.2021.754744 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fped.2021.754744/full |
| الإتاحة: |
https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.754744Test |
| حقوق: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/ |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.4DADD561 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
