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No evidence of association between schools and SARS-CoV-2 second wave in Italy.

2020-12-18 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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BackgroundDuring the Covid19 pandemic, school closure has been mandated in analogy to its known effect against influenza, but it is unclear whether schools are early amplifiers of Covid19 cases. MethodsWe performed a cross-sectional and prospective cohort study in Italy. We used databases from the Italian Ministry of Education containing the number of new positive SARS-CoV-2 cases per school from September 20 to November 8, 2020 to calculate incidence among students and staff. We calculated inc...

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