Department of Preventive Medicine, Konyang University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
J Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 4;222(5):832-835. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa179.
School closures are considered as a potential nonpharmaceutical intervention to mitigate severe influenza epidemics and pandemics. In this study, we assessed the effects of scheduled school closure on influenza transmission using influenza surveillance data before, during, and after spring breaks in South Korea, 2014-2016. During the spring breaks, influenza transmission was reduced by 27%-39%, while the overall reduction in transmissibility was estimated to be 6%-23%, with greater effects observed among school-aged children.
学校关闭被认为是减轻严重流感疫情和大流行的一种潜在非药物干预措施。本研究利用 2014-2016 年韩国春季休假前后的流感监测数据,评估了有计划的学校关闭对流感传播的影响。在春季休假期间,流感传播减少了 27%-39%,而总体传染性降低估计为 6%-23%,在学龄儿童中观察到的效果更大。