{"id":6592,"date":"2021-03-15T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:59:27","slug":"model-based-evaluation-of-school-and-non-school-related-measures-to-control-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/model-based-evaluation-of-school-and-non-school-related-measures-to-control-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Model-Based Evaluation of School- and Non-School-Related Measures to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An age-structured SARS-CoV-2 transmission model fitted to data from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands suggested that if <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">methods to reduce the effective reproduction number (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) of non-school-based contacts with non-school-based measures are exhausted or undesired and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is still near 1, school-based prevention measures may be beneficial, particularly among older students. The authors provide examples from summer and autumn 2020 as evidence that keeping schools closed after summer of 2020 likely would not have prevented the fall wave of infections, but closing schools in November 2020 may have reduced<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> R<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rozhnova et al.\u00a0(Dec 12, 2021). Model-Based Evaluation of School- and Non-School-Related Measures to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nature Communications. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-21899-6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-21899-6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An age-structured SARS-CoV-2 transmission model fitted to data from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands suggested that if methods to reduce the effective reproduction number (Re) of non-school-based contacts with non-school-based measures are exhausted or undesired and\u00a0Re\u00a0is still near 1, school-based prevention measures may be beneficial, particularly among older students. The authors provide examples from&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/model-based-evaluation-of-school-and-non-school-related-measures-to-control-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-6592","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\/6592","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}