Effect of Returning University Students on COVID-19 Infections in England, 2020.

ABSTRACT: Each September in England, ≈1 million students relocate to study at universities. To determine COVID-19 cases and outbreaks among university students after their return to university during the COVID pandemic in September 2020, we identified students with COVID-19 (student case-patients) by reviewing contact tracing records identifying attendance at university and residence in student accommodations identified by matching case-patients' residential addresses with national property databases. We determined COVID-19 rates in towns/cities with and without a university campus. We identified 53,430 student case-patients during September 1-December 31, 2020, which accounted for 2.7% of all cases during this period. Student case-patients increased rapidly after the start of the term, driven initi

SUBMITTER: Leeman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239898 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature