{"id":2024,"date":"2020-11-05T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2020-11-06T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:47:44","slug":"testing-the-waters-is-it-time-to-go-back-to-school-diagnostic-screening-as-a-covid%e2%80%9019-risk%e2%80%90mitigation-strategy-for-reopening-schools-in-king-county-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/05\/testing-the-waters-is-it-time-to-go-back-to-school-diagnostic-screening-as-a-covid%e2%80%9019-risk%e2%80%90mitigation-strategy-for-reopening-schools-in-king-county-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the waters: is it time to go back to school? Diagnostic screening as a COVID\u201019 risk\u2010mitigation strategy for reopening schools in King County, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Modeling of K-12 school reopening in King County, Washington found that if in-school countermeasures are observed, diagnostic screening either with PCR tests or rapid antigen tests may be of little benefit due to a higher rate of false positive tests in this low prevalence setting. Modeled in-school countermeasures included daily symptom screening, contact tracing, face masks, hand hygiene, improved ventilation, and physical distancing. Countermeasures could reduce the 3-month cumulative incidence to 2% or less for students, teachers, and staff. In this setting, school-based transmission was also found to be a limited driver of community spread, holding the effective reproduction number Re = 1 over 3 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Klein et al. (Nov 5, 2020). Testing the waters: is it time to go back to school? Diagnostic screening as a COVID\u201019 risk\u2010mitigation strategy for reopening schools in King County, WA. Institute for Disease Modeling. Downloaded Nov. 5 from <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.idmod.org\/data\/Testing_the_waters_time_to_go_back_to_school.pdf\">https:\/\/covid.idmod.org\/data\/Testing_the_waters_time_to_go_back_to_school.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Modeling of K-12 school reopening in King County, Washington found that if in-school countermeasures are observed, diagnostic screening either with PCR tests or rapid antigen tests may be of little benefit due to a higher rate of false positive tests in this low prevalence setting. Modeled in-school countermeasures included daily symptom screening,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/05\/testing-the-waters-is-it-time-to-go-back-to-school-diagnostic-screening-as-a-covid%e2%80%9019-risk%e2%80%90mitigation-strategy-for-reopening-schools-in-king-county-wa\/\">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":[35],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}