{"id":9093,"date":"2020-08-17T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:55:39","slug":"maximizing-education-while-minimizing-covid-risk%e2%80%af-priorities-and-pitfalls-for-reopening-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/maximizing-education-while-minimizing-covid-risk%e2%80%af-priorities-and-pitfalls-for-reopening-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximizing Education While Minimizing COVID Risk\u202f: Priorities and Pitfalls for Reopening Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cohen et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">estimated<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that 5-42% of schools would have at least one person with active COVID-19 on the first day of arrival<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">depending on the incidence of COVID-19 in the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">local\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">community.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Using the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Covasim<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0agent-based model<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">they estimate that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10-25% of staff and 6-17% of students would be infected in the first three months<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in a scenario where\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">all students return to in-person learning<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0without mitigation measures such as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">face masks<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, six-foot separation, and handwashing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. An approach with only elementary schools returning to in-person on an A\/B 2-day a week schedule, while other schools remain remote, would reduce the cumulative risk in school to below 1.2%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. They estimated more than seven times as many COVID-19 cases among people in schools if schools reopen\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at a community incidence rate of 110\/100,000 versus 20\/10,000<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cohen et al. (Aug 13, 2020). Maximizing Education While Minimizing COVID Risk\u202f: Priorities and Pitfalls for Reopening Schools. Institute for Disease Modeling.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/covid.idmod.org\/data\/Maximizing_education_while_minimizing_COVID_risk.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/covid.idmod.org\/data\/Maximizing_education_while_minimizing_COVID_risk.pdf<\/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>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Cohen et al.\u00a0estimated\u00a0that 5-42% of schools would have at least one person with active COVID-19 on the first day of arrival,\u00a0depending on the incidence of COVID-19 in the\u00a0local\u00a0community.\u00a0Using the\u00a0Covasim\u00a0agent-based model,\u00a0they estimate that\u00a010-25% of staff and 6-17% of students would be infected in the first three months\u00a0in a scenario where\u00a0all students return to in-person&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/maximizing-education-while-minimizing-covid-risk%e2%80%af-priorities-and-pitfalls-for-reopening-schools\/\">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-9093","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\/9093","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=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}