Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2010)

School Closure and Mitigation of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Hong Kong

  • Joseph T. Wu,
  • Benjamin J. Cowling,
  • Eric H.Y. Lau,
  • Dennis K.M. Ip,
  • Lai-Ming Ho,
  • Thomas Tsang,
  • Shuk-Kwan Chuang,
  • Pak-Yin Leung,
  • Su-Vui Lo,
  • Shao-Haei Liu,
  • Steven Riley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1603.091216
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 3
pp. 538 – 541

Abstract

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In Hong Kong, kindergartens and primary schools were closed when local transmission of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was identified. Secondary schools closed for summer vacation shortly afterwards. By fitting a model of reporting and transmission to case data, we estimated that transmission was reduced ≈25% when secondary schools closed.

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