In-person schooling with inadequate mitigation measures raises household members' COVID-19 risk

In-person schooling with inadequate mitigation measures raises household members' COVID-19 risk
Large study suggests that symptom screening, other measures can eliminate most or all excess risk of developing COVID-19-like symptoms or testing positive for COVID-19
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May 3, 2021
People living with a child who attends school in-person have an increased risk of reporting evidence of COVID-19, but teacher masking, symptom screening, and other mitigation measures in schools may be able to minimize that excess risk, suggests a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
For their study, the researchers analyzed nearly 600,000 responses from an ongoing Facebook-based COVID-19 symptom survey in the United States over two periods between November 2020 and February 2021 before vaccines were widely available in the U.S. The researchers found that those living with a child engaged in full-time, in-person pre-K-to-12 schooling were about 38% more likely to report COVID-19-like symptoms such as fever, cough, or difficulty breathing compared to those living with a child schooled exclusively in a home setting.

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