COVID-19 Incidence and Age Eligibility for Elementary School.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding the role of school attendance on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children is of importance for responding to future epidemics. Estimating discontinuities in outcomes by age of eligibility for school attendance has been used to examine associations between school attendance and a variety of outcomes, but has yet to be applied to describe associations between school attendance and communicable disease transmission.

Objective

To estimate the association between eligibility for elementary school and COVID-19 incidence.

Design, setting, and participants

This case series used data on all pediatric COVID-19 cases reported to California's disease surveillance system between May 16, 2020, and December 15, 2022, among children within 24 months of the a

SUBMITTER: Lin E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12316186 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature