Effect of planned school breaks on student absenteeism due to influenza‐like illness in school aged children—Oregon School District, Wisconsin September 2014–June 2019

• Published in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. e13244 - n/a
• Main Authors: He, Cecilia, Norton, Derek, Temte, Jonathan L., Barlow, Shari, Goss, Maureen, Temte, Emily, Bell, Cristalyne, Chen, Guanhua, Uzicanin, Amra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2024; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Absenteeism; Automation; Child; Children; Childrens health; Disease transmission; Epidemics; Holidays & special occasions; Humans; Illnesses; Impact analysis; Influenza; Influenza, Human - epidemiology; Influenza, Human - prevention & control; K‐12; Laboratories; Oregon; Original; Pandemics; Reduction; respiratory infection; Risk; school breaks; School closures; School districts; School lunches; Schools; Spring; Spring (season); student absenteeism; Students; Surveillance; Vaccines; viral surveillance; Winter; Wisconsin; Oregon; Wisconsin; United States > US; influenza; viral surveillance; school breaks; K‐12; respiratory infection; student absenteeism

Background School‐aged children and school reopening dates have important roles in community influenza transmission. Although many studies evaluated the impact of reactive closures during seasonal and pandemic influenza outbreaks on medically attended influenza in surrounding communities, few assess...