Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

May 12, 2021

Resuming In-Person Classes under COVID-19 Evaluating Assigned Seating Protocols in Limiting Contacts at Postsecondary Institutions

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  • [Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Simulations of seating arrangements based on student enrollment data from the 2019-2020 academic year at the University of British Columbia found that assigned seating could reduce the mean number of contacts per student to 31 compared to 130 contacts per student with random seating. In combination with assigned seating, excluding large classes with >200 students further reduced the mean number of contacts per student to 20.

Daly-Grafstein et al. (May 11, 2021). Resuming In-Person Classes under COVID-19 Evaluating Assigned Seating Protocols in Limiting Contacts at Postsecondary Institutions. Pre-print downloaded May 12 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.07.21256844