A Successful Collaboration Between an Urban School District, a Health System, and a Public Health Department to Address COVID-19 While Returning Children to the Classroom.

ABSTRACT: We sought to create and implement a set of COVID-19 mitigation processes including reliable testing to minimize in-school transmission of SARS-CoV-2. A large urban school district (> 33,000 students), a city health department, and a free-standing children's hospital partnered to implement multi-layered mitigation procedures which included access to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing with same day or next morning results. We tracked COVID-19 cases as well as probable/confirmed transmissions and identified needed mitigations through frequent huddles. During the 2020-2021 school year, there were 13 weeks of hybrid in person learning and 9 weeks of 5 day a week learning. Of the 1936 cases documented, only 3.2% resulted in subsequent school-related transmission. When children felt ill in t

SUBMITTER: Auger KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8881979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature