Alexandre Lebel, Pascale Morin, Éric Robitaille, Benoit Lalonde, Ramona Florina Fratu, Sherri Bisset
Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption among Primary School Students: Influence of the Schools' Vicinity
Journal of environmental and public health
examined school reopening policies amidst ongoing transmission highly transmissible delta variant accounting vaccination among individuals 12 years collected data social contacts among schoolaged children california bay area developed individualbased transmission model simulate transmission delta variant sarscov2 schools evaluated additional infections students teachersstaff resulting 128day semester inschool instruction compared remote instruction various npis mask use cohorts weekly testing studentsteachers implemented across various communitywide vaccination coverages 50 60 70 student 12 years teacherstaff vaccination coverages 50 95 70 vaccination coverage universal masking reduced infections 57 among students masking plus 70 vaccination coverage enabled achievement 50 excess cases per 1000 studentsteachers stricter risk tolerances 25 excess infections per 1000 studentsteachers required cohort approach elementary middle school populations absence npis increasing vaccination coverage community members 50 70 elementary teachers 70 95 reduced excess rate infection among elementary school students attributable school transmission 24 37 respectively amidst delta variant circulation found schools inherently low risk yet made high community vaccination coverages masking vaccination adults protects unvaccinated children national science foundation grant 2032210 national institutes health grant nos r01ai125842 r01ai148336 midas coordination center midassup20204