In-person school reopening and the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the second wave in Spain.

ABSTRACT: We investigate the effects of school reopening on the evolution of COVID-19 infections during the second wave in Spain studying both regional and age-group variation within an interrupted time-series design. Spain's 17 Autonomous Communities reopened schools at different moments in time during September 2020. We find that in-person school reopening correlates with a burst in infections in almost all those regions. Data from Spanish regions gives a further leverage: in some cases, pre-secondary and secondary education started at different dates. The analysis of those cases does not allow to conclude whether reopening one educational stage had an overall stronger impact than the other. To provide a plausible mechanism connecting school reopening with the burst in contagion, we study the Cata

SUBMITTER: Tormos R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9608566 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature