{"id":1035,"date":"2020-09-21T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:15:22","slug":"impact-of-university-re-opening-on-total-community-covid-19-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/21\/impact-of-university-re-opening-on-total-community-covid-19-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of University Re-opening on Total Community COVID-19 Burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] A modeling study reported that university students returning to schools may contribute to increased community transmission of COVID-19, affecting at-risk members of the city community. This is supported by a scenario that if students engage in a 24% contact reduction compared to pre-COVID levels, the number of community infections would increase by 87%, with 71% of the incremental infections occurring in the general population. If students have an initial, short-term increase in contacts with other students before engaging in contact reduction behaviors, the community infection would increase by over 150%.<\/li>\n<li>Screening asymptomatic students every 5 days reduces 42% of infections attributable to the introduction of students and delays the re-engagement of social and economic restrictions by 1 week. One-time mass screening of students prevents fewer infections, but is highly efficient in terms of infections prevented per screening test performed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cipriano et al. (Sept 18, 2020). Impact of University Re-opening on Total Community COVID-19 Burden. Pre-print downloaded Sept 21 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.18.20197467\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.18.20197467<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] A modeling study reported that university students returning to schools may contribute to increased community transmission of COVID-19, affecting at-risk members of the city community. This is supported by a scenario that if students engage in a 24% contact reduction compared to pre-COVID levels, the number of community infections would increase&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/21\/impact-of-university-re-opening-on-total-community-covid-19-burden\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,35],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","tag-schools","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}