Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a primary school setting with and without public health measures using real-world contact data: A modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stringent public health measures have been shown to influence the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within school environments. We investigated the potential transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a primary school setting with and without public health measures, using fine-grained physical positioning traces captured before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Approximately 172.63 million position data from 98 students and six teachers from an open-plan primary school were used to predict a potential transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in primary school settings. We first estimated the daily average number of contacts of students and teachers with an infected individual during the incubation period. We then used the Reed-Frost model to estimate the probability of transmission per contact for th

SUBMITTER: Yan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9526455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature