Effects of school-level and area-level socio-economic factors on elementary school student COVID-19 infections: a population-based observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the variability of the cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections among elementary school students attributable to individual schools and/or their geographic areas, and to ascertain whether socio-economic characteristics of school populations and/or geographic areas may be predictive of this variability.

Design

Population-based observational study of SARS-CoV-2 infections among elementary school children.

Setting

3994 publicly funded elementary schools in 491 forward sortation areas (designated geographic unit based on first three characters of Canadian postal code), Ontario, Canada, September 2020 to April 2021.

Participants

All students attending publicly funded elementary schools with a positive molecular test for SARS-CoV-2 reporte

SUBMITTER: Srivastava P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10008203 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature