{"id":3893,"date":"2021-02-13T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:46:00","slug":"the-effects-of-school-closures-on-sars-cov-2-among-parents-and-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/13\/the-effects-of-school-closures-on-sars-cov-2-among-parents-and-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of School Closures on SARS-CoV-2 among Parents and Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden kept schools open for in-person instruction for younger students (primary and lower-secondary) while closing schools for older students (upper-secondary), allowing for an evaluation of school closures on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection among lower-secondary teachers (who taught children age 14 to 16 in person) was twice as high (7.4 cases per 1,000) as the rate among upper-secondary teachers (who taught children age 16 to 19 online) (4.7 per 1,000; OR=2). In contrast, primary school teachers had a lower rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection (3.8 to 4.8 cases per 1,000 for lower and upper primary school, respectively).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Partners of lower-secondary teachers were more likely to develop COVID-19 than partners of upper-secondary teachers (OR=1.3). Parents of children attending school in-person were also more likely to test positive (OR=1.17) than parents of children whose schools remained closed to in-person instruction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Measures to limit transmission in schools that were open were minimal, with no quarantine of those exposed unless they showed symptoms of infection, no reductions in class-size, and face masks rarely used.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Vlachos et al. (Mar 2, 2021). The Effects of School Closures on SARS-CoV-2 among Parents and Teachers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2020834118\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2020834118<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden kept schools open for in-person instruction for younger students (primary and lower-secondary) while closing schools for older students (upper-secondary), allowing for an evaluation of school closures on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection among lower-secondary teachers (who taught children age 14 to 16 in person) was twice as high (7.4 cases per 1,000)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/13\/the-effects-of-school-closures-on-sars-cov-2-among-parents-and-teachers\/\">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":[37,35,171],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-schools","tag-sweden","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","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=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}