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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2023 Dec 12;30(1).
doi: 10.3201/eid3001.231215. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19-Related School Closures, United States, July 27, 2020-June 30, 2022
Nicole Zviedrite, Ferdous Jahan, Sarah Moreland, Faruque Ahmed, Amra Uzicanin
As part of a multiyear project that monitored illness-related school closures, we conducted systematic daily online searches during July 27, 2020-June 30, 2022, to identify public announcements of COVID-19-related school closures (COVID-SCs) in the United States lasting >1 day. We explored the temporospatial patterns of COVID-SCs and analyzed associations between COVID-SCs and national COVID-19 surveillance data. COVID-SCs reflected national surveillance data: correlation was highest between COVID-SCs and both new PCR test positivity (correlation coefficient [r] = 0.73, 95% CI 0.56-0.84) and new cases (r = 0.72, 95% CI 0.54-0.83) during 2020-21 and with hospitalization rates among all ages (r = 0.81, 95% CI 0.67-0.89) during 2021-22. The numbers of reactive COVID-SCs during 2020-21 and 2021-22 greatly exceeded previously observed numbers of illness-related reactive school closures in the United States, notably being nearly 5-fold greater than reactive closures observed during the 2009 influenza (H1N1) pandemic.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; United States; community mitigation; nonpharmaceutical interventions; respiratory infections; school closures; vaccine-preventable diseases; viruses.
. 2023 Dec 12;30(1).
doi: 10.3201/eid3001.231215. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19-Related School Closures, United States, July 27, 2020-June 30, 2022
Nicole Zviedrite, Ferdous Jahan, Sarah Moreland, Faruque Ahmed, Amra Uzicanin
- PMID: 38086396
- DOI: 10.3201/eid3001.231215
As part of a multiyear project that monitored illness-related school closures, we conducted systematic daily online searches during July 27, 2020-June 30, 2022, to identify public announcements of COVID-19-related school closures (COVID-SCs) in the United States lasting >1 day. We explored the temporospatial patterns of COVID-SCs and analyzed associations between COVID-SCs and national COVID-19 surveillance data. COVID-SCs reflected national surveillance data: correlation was highest between COVID-SCs and both new PCR test positivity (correlation coefficient [r] = 0.73, 95% CI 0.56-0.84) and new cases (r = 0.72, 95% CI 0.54-0.83) during 2020-21 and with hospitalization rates among all ages (r = 0.81, 95% CI 0.67-0.89) during 2021-22. The numbers of reactive COVID-SCs during 2020-21 and 2021-22 greatly exceeded previously observed numbers of illness-related reactive school closures in the United States, notably being nearly 5-fold greater than reactive closures observed during the 2009 influenza (H1N1) pandemic.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; United States; community mitigation; nonpharmaceutical interventions; respiratory infections; school closures; vaccine-preventable diseases; viruses.