Association of Elementary School Reopening Status and County COVID-19 Incidence.
Acad Pediatr
; 22(4): 667-670, 2022.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1415152
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the association between elementary school opening status (ESOS) and changes in pediatric COVID-19 incidence.METHODS:
We conducted a cross-sectional study of US counties with school districts with ≥500 elementary school students. The main exposure was ESOS in September, 2020. The outcome was county incidence of COVID-19. Age-stratified negative binomial regression models were constructed using county adult COVID-19 incidence.RESULTS:
Among 3220 US counties, 618 (19.2%) were remote, 391 (12.1%) were hybrid, 2022 (62.8%) were in-person. In unadjusted models, COVID-19 incidence after school started was higher among children in hybrid or in-person counties compared with remote counties. After adjustment for local adult incidence, among children aged 0 to 9, the incidence rate ratio of COVID-19 (IRR) compared with remote counties was 1.01 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.93-1.08) in hybrid counties and 0.79 (95% CI 0.75-0.84) in in-person counties.CONCLUSIONS:
Counties with in-person learning did not have higher rates of COVID-19 after adjustment for local adult rates.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Adult
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Child
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Acad Pediatr
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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