Assessment of a COVID-19 Control Plan on an Urban University Campus During a Second Wave of the Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted US educational institutions. Given potential adverse financial and psychosocial effects of campus closures, many institutions developed strategies to reopen campuses in the fall 2020 semester despite the ongoing threat of COVID-19. However, many institutions opted to have limited campus reopening to minimize potential risk of spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Objective

To analyze how Boston University (BU) fully reopened its campus in the fall of 2020 and controlled COVID-19 transmission despite worsening transmission in Boston, Massachusetts.

Design, setting, and participants

This multifaceted intervention case series was conducted at a large urban university campus in Boston, Massachusetts, during the fall 2020 semester. T

SUBMITTER: Hamer DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8233704 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature