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. 2022 Apr 4;12(4):e058308. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058308

Table 2.

Studies that assessed the secondary attack rate (SAR)*, when children are the index case within educational settings

Study Country Timeframe SAR
Heavey et al16 Ireland March 2020 0
Danis et al17 France January–February 2020 School: 0/86, community: 0/80, hospitalised: 1/6
Yung et al62 Singapore February–March 2020 0/42
Macartney et al21 Australia, New South Wales 25 January–9 April 2020 All settings, all child case to child contacts 0.3% (2/649)
All settings, all child case to staff member contacts 1.0% (1/103),
Child close contacts 28.0% (7/25)
Stein-Zamir et al22 Israel May 2020 178/1312
Heavey et al16 USA, Rhode Island 1 June–31 July 2020 n/a
Pray et al29 USA, Wisconsin July–August 2020 115/151 (76%)
Blaisdell et al30 USA, Maine June–August 2020 0
Lopez et al20 USA, Utah April–July 2020 n/a
Ehrhardt et al24 Germany, Baden-Württemberg 25 May–5 August 2020 Estimation of one secondary case per roughly 25 infectious school days
Brandal et al28 Norway, Oslo and Viken counties 28 August–11 November 2020 Child 2/234 (0.9%), adult 1/58 (1.7%)
Gold et al19 USA, Georgia 1 December 2020–22 January 2021 n/a
Larosa et al27 Italy 1 September–15 October 2020 38/994 (3.82%) overall
0.38% in primary schools (1/266)
6.46% in secondary schools (37/572)
Yoon et al26 South Korea 27 February–16 March 2020 0
Yoon et al25 Korea Up to 31 July 2020 2/≥13 100

*The extracted SAR based on the original definition given by the authors in each study.

n/a, not available.