April 14, 2021

The Effect of In-Person Primary and Secondary School Instruction on County-Level SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Indiana

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Transmission

Keywords (Tags): schools, transmission

• A county-level population-based study in Indiana found that for every 10% increase in the proportion of students attending in-person instruction, daily risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection increased by 0.336 per 100,000 population. This corresponds to an overall 0.8% increase over the expected number of cases 28 days later. The authors note that this increase is very small in proportion to the overall number of new cases that would be expected in the absence of in-person instruction.

Bosslet et al. (Apr 13, 2021). The Effect of In-Person Primary and Secondary School Instruction on County-Level SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Indiana. Clinical Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab306