Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

December 3, 2020

Social Network-Based Strategies for Classroom Size Reduction Can Help Limit Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in High Schools. A Simulation Study in Classrooms of Four European Countries

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  • [Pre-print, not peer reviewed] A simulation study of classroom based on longitudinal survey data collected from four European countries (n=507 classrooms, 12,291 students) found that while establishing student cohorts that minimize out-of-school contact between different cohorts would be most effective in preventing spread of SARS-CoV-2, cohorting by approximation of social networks also performed well. Network-based cohorting outperformed dividing classrooms by gender. For all cohorting strategies, schedules with alternating weeks of instruction were most effective.

Kaiser et al. (Dec 2, 2020). Social Network-Based Strategies for Classroom Size Reduction Can Help Limit Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in High Schools. A Simulation Study in Classrooms of Four European Countries. Pre-print downloaded Dec 3 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.30.20241166