Assessing K-12 school reopenings under different COVID-19 Spread scenarios – United States, school year 2020/21: A retrospective modeling study

• DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100632
• Publication Date: 2022-09-21T17:58:37Z
• Authors: Timothy C. Germann; Manhong Z. Smith; Lori R. Dauelsberg; Geoffrey Fairchild; Terece L. Turton; Morgan E. Gorris; Chrysm Watson Ross; James P. Ahrens; Daniel D. Hemphill; Carrie A. Manore; Sara Y. Del Valle
• Keywords: Pandemic; Disease Control

School-age children play a key role in the spread of airborne viruses like influenza due to prolonged and close contacts they have school settings. As result, closures other non-pharmaceutical interventions were recommended as first line defense response novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).