Lifting Universal Masking in Schools - Covid-19 Incidence among Students and Staff.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In February 2022, Massachusetts rescinded a statewide universal masking policy in public schools, and many Massachusetts school districts lifted masking requirements during the subsequent weeks. In the greater Boston area, only two school districts - the Boston and neighboring Chelsea districts - sustained masking requirements through June 2022. The staggered lifting of masking requirements provided an opportunity to examine the effect of universal masking policies on the incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in schools.

Methods

We used a difference-in-differences analysis for staggered policy implementation to compare the incidence of Covid-19 among students and staff in school districts in the greater Boston area that lifted masking requirements with

SUBMITTER: Cowger TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743802 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature