{"id":3687,"date":"2023-05-30T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2023-05-30T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T18:05:23","slug":"tally-of-covid-19-cases-after-cdc-conference-climbs-to-181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/30\/tally-of-covid-19-cases-after-cdc-conference-climbs-to-181\/","title":{"rendered":"Tally of covid-19 cases after CDC conference climbs to 181"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/26\/cdc-covid-outbreak\/\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tally of people&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/02\/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infected with the coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;after attending a high-profile Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conference in April has risen to at least 181, the agency reported Friday. No one was hospitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC\u2019s Epidemic Intelligence Service officers and alumni \u2014 the disease detectives deployed to identify and fight outbreaks \u2014 met April 24-27 at an Atlanta hotel. The conference drew 1,800 in-person attendees, the first in-person Epidemic Intelligence Service gathering in four years. Like many conferences, it was crowded, with much face-to-face contact, many events held in small rooms and lots of socializing, according to attendees. About 70 percent of participants who responded to a CDC surveysaid they did not wear masks at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak of covid-19 cases at the conference underscores the persistence of an\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/05\/covid-forecast-next-two-years\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">evolving and highly infectious\u00a0<\/a>virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another CDC global health meeting is scheduled for the same hotel in early June; about 300 to 400 people are expected to attend in person, said one CDC employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a \u201cKnow Before You Go\u201d document shared with The Washington Post, CDC organizers encourage attendees at the June conference to wear their \u201cown high-quality masks and, if possible, also carry covid-19 rapid tests with them.\u201d Organizers of the second conference were informed about the covid outbreak at the earlier event, CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said. The agency will have masks available if employees want to wear one, she said.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"RcR a I pb  uvS\"><!-- RcR a I pb  uvS --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The tally of people&nbsp;infected with the coronavirus&nbsp;after attending a high-profile Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conference in April has risen to at least 181, the agency reported Friday. No one was hospitalized. The CDC\u2019s Epidemic Intelligence Service officers and alumni \u2014 the disease detectives deployed to identify and fight outbreaks \u2014 met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}