Household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling

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<jats:title>Back to school—safely</jats:title> <jats:p> Severe COVID-19 in children is rare, but many schools remain closed because the transmission risk that school contact poses to adults and the wider community is unknown. Observing the heterogeneity of approaches taken among U.S. school districts, Lessler <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> investigated how different strategies influence COVID-19 transmission rates in the wider community using COVID-19 Symptom Survey data from Carnegie Mellon and Facebook. The authors found that when mitigation measures are in place, transmission within schools is limited and infection rates mirror that of the surrounding community. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , abh2939, this issue p. <jats:related-article issue="6546" page="1092" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="372">1092</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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10.1126/science.abh2939

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Lessler, Justin, M Kate Grabowski, Kyra H Grantz, Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, C Jessica E Metcalf, Carly Lupton-Smith, Andrew S Azman, Elizabeth A Stuart, et al. (2021). Household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling. Science, 372(6546). pp. 1092–1097. 10.1126/science.abh2939 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/31329.

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