{"id":9948,"date":"2021-05-21T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9948"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:19:59","slug":"covid-19-testing-to-sustain-in-person-instruction-and-extracurricular-activities-in-high-schools-utah-november-2020-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/covid-19-testing-to-sustain-in-person-instruction-and-extracurricular-activities-in-high-schools-utah-november-2020-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Testing to Sustain In-Person Instruction and Extracurricular Activities in High Schools \u2014 Utah, November 2020\u2013March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An evaluation of two high school COVID-19 testing programs implemented in Utah to support continuation of in-person instruction and extracurricular activities found that the programs saved an estimated 109,952 in-person instruction student-days and supported continuation of extracurricular activities. One program implemented SARS-CoV-2 testing every 14 days for participation in extracurricular activities, and the other implemented school-wide testing when the school crossed an outbreak threshold as an alternative to switching to remote instruction. However, the impact of the testing program on COVID-19 transmission in schools was not assessed in this study.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lanier et al. (May 21, 2021). COVID-19 Testing to Sustain In-Person Instruction and Extracurricular Activities in High Schools \u2014 Utah, November 2020\u2013March 2021. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7021e2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7021e2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evaluation of two high school COVID-19 testing programs implemented in Utah to support continuation of in-person instruction and extracurricular activities found that the programs saved an estimated 109,952 in-person instruction student-days and supported continuation of extracurricular activities. One program implemented SARS-CoV-2 testing every 14 days for participation in extracurricular activities, and the other implemented&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/covid-19-testing-to-sustain-in-person-instruction-and-extracurricular-activities-in-high-schools-utah-november-2020-march-2021\/\">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":[35,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","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=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}