{"id":8543,"date":"2020-07-29T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:53:54","slug":"association-between-statewide-school-closure-and-covid-19-incidence-and-mortality-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/association-between-statewide-school-closure-and-covid-19-incidence-and-mortality-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US"},"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\">Auger, et al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. conduc<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ted<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a time<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0series analysis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0all 50 US states and found that school closures were temporally associated with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">declines in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 incidence (adjusted relative change per week, -62%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0[<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95% CI, -71% to -49%]<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mortality<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(adjusted relative<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0change per week<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0-58%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0[<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95% CI, -68%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to -46%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">]<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0during March 9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-May 7, 2020.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tates in the lowest quartile of COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cumulative\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">incidence at the time of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">school closure had<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">largest<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0relative chan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">g<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e in incidence (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-72<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">95%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0CI, &#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">79% to -62%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">])<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0versus<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0states in the highest quartile<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(-49%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, [95% CI<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, -62%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to -33%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">]).\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=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors acknowledge that some of the observed declines may have been due to other non-pharmaceutical interventions implemented concurrently with 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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Auger et al. (July 29, 2020). Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US. JAMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.14348\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.14348<\/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>Auger, et al. conducted\u00a0a time\u00a0series analysis\u00a0for\u00a0all 50 US states and found that school closures were temporally associated with\u00a0declines in\u00a0COVID-19 incidence (adjusted relative change per week, -62%\u00a0[95% CI, -71% to -49%])\u00a0and\u00a0mortality\u00a0(adjusted relative\u00a0change per week,\u00a0-58%\u00a0[95% CI, -68%\u00a0to -46%])\u00a0during March 9-May 7, 2020.\u00a0States in the lowest quartile of COVID-19\u00a0cumulative\u00a0incidence at the time of\u00a0school closure had\u00a0the\u00a0largest\u00a0relative change in incidence&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/association-between-statewide-school-closure-and-covid-19-incidence-and-mortality-in-the-us\/\">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-8543","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\/8543","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=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}