{"id":7823,"date":"2020-06-26T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:14:27","slug":"shut-and-re-open-the-role-of-schools-in-the-spread-of-covid-19-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/26\/shut-and-re-open-the-role-of-schools-in-the-spread-of-covid-19-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut and Re-Open the Role of Schools in the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"44\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stage et al. compared daily hospitalization trends in northern European\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">countries<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and German<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">y<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and found that the growth rate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of COVID-19 cases\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decline<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0approximately 9 days after implementation of school closures.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"44\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">L<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">imited school attendance\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">did\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">not appear to significantly affect transmission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"44\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reopening\u00a0of schools for all students in countries with low community transmission (Denmark and Norway) has not resulted in a significant increase in the growth rate of COVID-19 cases.\u00a0Return\u00a0of most students to school in countries with higher levels of community transmission (German<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">y<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) has been accompanied by increased transmission among students, but not school staff.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Stage et al. 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Shut and Re-Open the Role of Schools in the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded June\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">26<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.24.20139634\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.24.20139634<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Stage et al. compared daily hospitalization trends in northern European\u00a0countries\u00a0(Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany), and found that the growth rate\u00a0of COVID-19 cases\u00a0declined\u00a0approximately 9 days after implementation of school closures.\u00a0\u00a0 Limited school attendance\u00a0did\u00a0not appear to significantly affect transmission.\u00a0 Reopening\u00a0of schools for all students in countries with low community transmission (Denmark and Norway) has not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/26\/shut-and-re-open-the-role-of-schools-in-the-spread-of-covid-19-in-europe\/\">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":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","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=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7824,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}