{"id":2447,"date":"2020-11-30T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:46:16","slug":"which-policies-most-effectively-reduce-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/30\/which-policies-most-effectively-reduce-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Policies Most Effectively Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> An evaluation of policies to reduce in-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission in New York City public schools simulated that the greatest reductions in transmission could be achieved through infection control measures (mask wearing, physical distancing, good indoor ventilation, hand washing); further reductions could be achieved through small rotating class cohorts, widespread testing at the start of the week, and daily symptom screening, and self-isolation. Randomly testing 10-20% of school attendees did not have a strong effect on reducing transmission.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Bershteyn et al. (Nov 27, 2020). Which Policies Most Effectively Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Schools. <\/i><i>Pre-print downloaded Nov. 30 from<\/i><i> <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.24.20237305\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.24.20237305<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] An evaluation of policies to reduce in-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission in New York City public schools simulated that the greatest reductions in transmission could be achieved through infection control measures (mask wearing, physical distancing, good indoor ventilation, hand washing); further reductions could be achieved through small rotating class cohorts, widespread testing at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/30\/which-policies-most-effectively-reduce-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-schools\/\">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":[47,37],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}