{"id":1532,"date":"2020-10-13T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2020-10-19T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T21:06:37","slug":"using-an-agent-based-model-to-assess-k-12-school-reopenings-under-different-covid-19-spread-scenarios-united-states-school-year-2020-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/13\/using-an-agent-based-model-to-assess-k-12-school-reopenings-under-different-covid-19-spread-scenarios-united-states-school-year-2020-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Using an Agent-Based Model to Assess K-12 School Reopenings Under Different COVID-19 Spread Scenarios \u2013 United States, School Year 2020\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An agent-based model that simulated communities from K-12 schools across the US found that the percentage of individuals with symptomatic COVID-19 significantly decreased by as much as 75% in scenarios where students returned to school in non-overlapping split cohorts. Depending upon community factors like initial level of COVID-19 incidence and number of workplaces open for in-person businesses, split cohort scenarios could avert approximately 28-60 million cases nationwide over the simulated 8-month period.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Germann et al. (Oct 13, 2020). Using an Agent-Based Model to Assess K-12 School Reopenings Under Different COVID-19 Spread Scenarios \u2013 United States, School Year 2020\/21. Pre-print downloaded Oct 13 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.09.20208876\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.09.20208876<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agent-based model that simulated communities from K-12 schools across the US found that the percentage of individuals with symptomatic COVID-19 significantly decreased by as much as 75% in scenarios where students returned to school in non-overlapping split cohorts. Depending upon community factors like initial level of COVID-19 incidence and number of workplaces open for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/13\/using-an-agent-based-model-to-assess-k-12-school-reopenings-under-different-covid-19-spread-scenarios-united-states-school-year-2020-21\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-1532","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\/1532","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}