Study: Indoor school sports most likely to spread COVID-19A study in an Atlanta school district revealed that the highest secondary COVID-19 attack rates were in indoor, high-contact sports settings (23.8%), staff meetings or lunches (18.2%), and elementary school classrooms (9.5%), and that staff were more susceptible to COVID-19 than students were.The study, published late last week in Clinical Infectious Diseases, tracked COVID-19 cases and case contacts from Dec 11, 2020, through Jan 22, 2021, in a district that included eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school.
Students were in-person 4 days per week and wore masks, and desks were spaced 3 to 6 feet apart.All cases were confirmed by polymerase chain reaction