{"id":8512,"date":"2020-07-27T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:33:04","slug":"simulating-the-effect-of-school-closure-during-covid-19-outbreaks-in-ontario-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/simulating-the-effect-of-school-closure-during-covid-19-outbreaks-in-ontario-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulating the Effect of School Closure during\u00a0COVID-19 Outbreaks in Ontario, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Using an age-structured agent-based model parametrized with demographics from Ontario, C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">anada<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Abdollahi et al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0found that increasing the duration of school closures from 3 to 16 weeks reduced the COVID-19 attack rate by 7%-1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% when contacts among school children were restricted by 60-80%. Adding varying degrees of voluntary social isolation among mildly symptomatic persons further reduced the attack rate.<\/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\">Abdollahi et al. (July 24, 2020). Simulating the Effect of School Closure during\u00a0COVID-19 Outbreaks in Ontario, Canada. BMC Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12916-020-01705-8\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12916-020-01705-8<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>Using an age-structured agent-based model parametrized with demographics from Ontario, Canada, Abdollahi et al.\u00a0found that increasing the duration of school closures from 3 to 16 weeks reduced the COVID-19 attack rate by 7%-13% when contacts among school children were restricted by 60-80%. Adding varying degrees of voluntary social isolation among mildly symptomatic persons further reduced&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/simulating-the-effect-of-school-closure-during-covid-19-outbreaks-in-ontario-canada\/\">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":[23],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","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=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8513,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/8513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}