COVID-19 Campus Introduction Risks for School Reopenings
| dc.creator | Fox, Spencer J. | |
| dc.creator | Lachmann, Michael | |
| dc.creator | Meyers, Lauren Ancel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-29T20:41:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-29T20:41:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic threatens most Texas cities. As of July 21, 2020, Texas has reported 340,000 confirmed cases and nearly 4,200 deaths. School districts statewide are developing plans to offer in-person education that meet the social and educational needs of students while mitigating the risk of COVID-19 to students, staff, faculty, their families and the surrounding communities. The level of risk for a particular school or school system will stem from three factors: 1. Introduction risks: the chance that students and staff will be infected outside of school and arrive at school while infected. 2. On-campus transmission risks: the chance that transmission will occur within schools if and when students or staff arrive infected. 3. Community amplification risks: the chance that individuals infected within schools will subsequently transmit the virus to individuals in the surrounding community. To address the first of these three components, this report provides a simple calculation for estimating the rate at which COVID-19 may appear on school campuses depending on the background prevalence of the virus in the surrounding community. | |
| dc.description.department | Integrative Biology | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2152/126249 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/52786 | |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
| dc.subject | school reopenings | |
| dc.title | COVID-19 Campus Introduction Risks for School Reopenings | |
| dc.type | DataPaper |