Fricchione Marielle J, Seo Jennifer Y, Arwady M Allison
Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois.
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2021;27(3):229-232. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001334.
Reopening in-person education in public schools during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic requires careful risk-benefit analysis, with no current established metrics. Equity concerns in urban public schools such as decreased enrollment among largely Black and Latinx prekindergarten and special needs public school students already disproportionately impacted by the pandemic itself have added urgency to Chicago Department of Public Health's analysis of COVID-19 transmission. Close tracking within a large school system revealed a lower attack rate for students and staff participating in in-person learning than for the community overall. By combining local data from a large urban private school system with national and international data on maintaining in-person learning during COVID-19 surges, Chicago believes in-person public education poses a low risk of transmission when the operational burden imposed by the second wave has subsided.
在2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间重新开放公立学校的面授教育需要进行仔细的风险效益分析，目前尚无既定的衡量标准。城市公立学校中的公平问题，如在很大程度上已经受到疫情本身不成比例影响的黑人及拉丁裔学前班和特殊需求公立学校学生入学人数减少，这增加了芝加哥公共卫生部对COVID-19传播情况分析的紧迫性。在一个大型学校系统内进行的密切跟踪显示，参与面授学习的学生和工作人员的感染率低于整个社区。通过将一个大型城市私立学校系统的本地数据与关于在COVID-19激增期间维持面授学习的国家和国际数据相结合，芝加哥认为，当第二波疫情带来的运营负担消退后，公立学校的面授教育传播风险较低。
