Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2010)

Household Effects of School Closure during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA

  • Thomas L. Gift,
  • Rakhee S. Palekar,
  • Samir V. Sodha,
  • Charlotte K. Kent,
  • Ryan P. Fagan,
  • W. Roodly Archer,
  • Paul J. Edelson,
  • Tiffany Marchbanks,
  • Achuyt Bhattarai,
  • David L. Swerdlow,
  • Stephen Ostroff,
  • Martin I. Meltzer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1608.091827
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 8
pp. 1315 – 1317

Abstract

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To determine the effects of school closure, we surveyed 214 households after a 1-week elementary school closure because of pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Students spent 77% of the closure days at home, 69% of students visited at least 1 other location, and 79% of households reported that adults missed no days of work to watch children.

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