Model-Estimated Association Between Simulated US Elementary School-Related SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, Mitigation Interventions, and Vaccine Coverage Across Local Incidence Levels.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

With recent surges in COVID-19 incidence and vaccine authorization for children aged 5 to 11 years, elementary schools face decisions about requirements for masking and other mitigation measures. These decisions require explicit determination of community objectives (eg, acceptable risk level for in-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission) and quantitative estimates of the consequences of changing mitigation measures.

Objective

To estimate the association between adding or removing in-school mitigation measures (eg, masks) and COVID-19 outcomes within an elementary school community at varying student vaccination and local incidence rates.

Design, setting, and participants

This decision analytic model used an agent-based model to simulate SARS-CoV-2 transmission with

SUBMITTER: Giardina J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8845023 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature