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Table 1 Demographics and characteristics of exposure among students and staff exposed in school to a COVID-19 case in a school district in Georgia, December 2020–January 2021 (N=796)

From: Prevalence of risk behaviors and correlates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity among in-school contacts of confirmed cases in a Georgia school district in the pre-vaccine era, December 2020–January 2021

 

Elementary Students

N=469

Middle/High Students

N=248

Staff

N=79

Total

N=796

Demographics

Gender

 Male

239 (51.0%)

151 (60.9%)

14 (17.7%)

404 (50.7%)

 Female

227 (48.4%)

97 (39.1%)

65 (82.3%)

389 (48.9%)

 Missing

3 (0.6%)

-

-

3 (0.4%)

Race/ethnicity

 Non-Hispanic White

58 (12.4%)

71 (28.6%)

49 (62.0%)

178 (22.4%)

 Non-Hispanic Black

127 (27.1%)

83 (33.5%)

21 (26.6%)

231 (29.0%)

 Hispanic or Latino/a

268 (57.1%)

87 (35.1%)

8 (10.1%)

363 (45.6%)

 Other categorya

16 (3.4%)

7 (2.8%)

1 (1.3%)

24 (3.0%)

School level

 Elementary (grades K-5)

469 (100.0%)

-

52 (65.8%)

521 (65.5%)

 Middle (grades 6-8)

-

121 (48.8%)

12 (15.2%)

133 (16.7%)

 High (grades 9-12)

-

127 (51.2%)

10 (12.7%)

137 (17.2%)

 District-level

-

-

5 (6.3%)

5 (0.6%)

Characterstics of exposure

Index Case School Role

 Staff

220 (46.9%)

38 (15.3%)

38 (48.1%)

296 (37.2%)

 Student

246 (52.5%)

202 (81.5%)

35 (44.3%)

483 (60.7%)

 Missing

3 (0.6%)

8 (3.2%)

6 (7.6%)

17 (2.1%)

Reported primary exposure locationb

 Classroom/educationalc

369 (78.7%)

152 (61.3%)

50 (63.3%)

571 (71.7%)

 Bus

98 (20.9%)

29 (11.7%)

1 (1.3%)

128 (16.1%)

 Sports

1 (0.2%)

61 (24.6%)

4 (5.1%)

66 (8.3%)

 Office/Meeting

-

-

23 (29.1%)

23 (2.9%)

 Unknown

1 (0.2%)

6 (2.4%)

1 (1.2%)

8 (1.0%)

Concurrent exposure in school

 Exposed to one case in school at a time

442 (94.2%)

242 (97.6%)

78 (98.7%)

762 (95.7%)

 Concurrently exposed to two cases in school

23 (4.9%)

4 (1.6%)

1 (1.3%)

28 (3.5%)

 Concurrently exposed to ≥3 cases in school

4 (0.9%)

2 (0.8%)

0 (0.0%)

6 (0.8%)

  1. aIncludes participants who reported Asian or American Indian/Alaska Native identity, or unknown
  2. bThe school district assigned each contact a single predominant location for exposure
  3. cTutoring, after-school care, lunch