Model-based projections for COVID-19 outbreak size and student-days lost to closure in Ontario childcare centres and primary schools

Abstract There is a pressing need for evidence-based scrutiny of plans to re-open childcare centres during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we developed an agent-based model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission within a childcare centre and households. Scenarios varied the student-to-educator ratio (15:2, 8:2, 7:3...

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Main Authors: Brendon Phillips, Dillon T. Browne, Madhur Anand, Chris T. Bauch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85302-6