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Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries adopted various non-pharmacological interventions to contain the number of infections. The most often used policy was school closures. We describe the strategy adopted by the Veneto Regional Authority to contain transmission in school settings. This inclu...

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Autores principales: Tonon, Michele, Da Re, Filippo, Zampieri, Chiara, Nicoletti, Michele, Caberlotto, Riccardo, De Siena, Francesco Paolo, Lattavo, Gaia, Minnicelli, Anil, Zardetto, Alberto, Sforzi, Benedetta, Ros, Elisa, Mongillo, Michele, Scatto, Alessandro, Vecchiato, Elena, Baldo, Vincenzo, Cocchio, Silvia, Russo, Francesca
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34831921
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212165
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author Tonon, Michele
Da Re, Filippo
Zampieri, Chiara
Nicoletti, Michele
Caberlotto, Riccardo
De Siena, Francesco Paolo
Lattavo, Gaia
Minnicelli, Anil
Zardetto, Alberto
Sforzi, Benedetta
Ros, Elisa
Mongillo, Michele
Scatto, Alessandro
Vecchiato, Elena
Baldo, Vincenzo
Cocchio, Silvia
Russo, Francesca
author_facet Tonon, Michele
Da Re, Filippo
Zampieri, Chiara
Nicoletti, Michele
Caberlotto, Riccardo
De Siena, Francesco Paolo
Lattavo, Gaia
Minnicelli, Anil
Zardetto, Alberto
Sforzi, Benedetta
Ros, Elisa
Mongillo, Michele
Scatto, Alessandro
Vecchiato, Elena
Baldo, Vincenzo
Cocchio, Silvia
Russo, Francesca
author_sort Tonon, Michele
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries adopted various non-pharmacological interventions to contain the number of infections. The most often used policy was school closures. We describe the strategy adopted by the Veneto Regional Authority to contain transmission in school settings. This included a detailed school surveillance system, strict contact tracing, and maintaining school attendance with self-monitoring for symptoms whenever possible. All analyzed COVID-19 cases among children, adolescents (0–19 years old), and school staff were registered using a web-based application between 4 January 2021 and 13 June 2021. During the study period, 6272 episodes of infection in schools were identified; 87% were linked to a student index case and 13% to school staff; 69% generated no secondary cases; 24% generated one or two; and only 7% caused more than two. Our data may help to clarify the role of school closures, providing useful input for decisions in the months to come. Good practice in public health management needs tools that provide a real-time interpretation of phenomena like COVID-19 outbreaks. The proposed measures should be easy to adopt and accessible to policymakers.
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spelling pubmed-86242332021-11-27 Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021 Tonon, Michele Da Re, Filippo Zampieri, Chiara Nicoletti, Michele Caberlotto, Riccardo De Siena, Francesco Paolo Lattavo, Gaia Minnicelli, Anil Zardetto, Alberto Sforzi, Benedetta Ros, Elisa Mongillo, Michele Scatto, Alessandro Vecchiato, Elena Baldo, Vincenzo Cocchio, Silvia Russo, Francesca Int J Environ Res Public Health Article During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries adopted various non-pharmacological interventions to contain the number of infections. The most often used policy was school closures. We describe the strategy adopted by the Veneto Regional Authority to contain transmission in school settings. This included a detailed school surveillance system, strict contact tracing, and maintaining school attendance with self-monitoring for symptoms whenever possible. All analyzed COVID-19 cases among children, adolescents (0–19 years old), and school staff were registered using a web-based application between 4 January 2021 and 13 June 2021. During the study period, 6272 episodes of infection in schools were identified; 87% were linked to a student index case and 13% to school staff; 69% generated no secondary cases; 24% generated one or two; and only 7% caused more than two. Our data may help to clarify the role of school closures, providing useful input for decisions in the months to come. Good practice in public health management needs tools that provide a real-time interpretation of phenomena like COVID-19 outbreaks. The proposed measures should be easy to adopt and accessible to policymakers. MDPI 2021-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8624233/ /pubmed/34831921 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212165 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tonon, Michele
Da Re, Filippo
Zampieri, Chiara
Nicoletti, Michele
Caberlotto, Riccardo
De Siena, Francesco Paolo
Lattavo, Gaia
Minnicelli, Anil
Zardetto, Alberto
Sforzi, Benedetta
Ros, Elisa
Mongillo, Michele
Scatto, Alessandro
Vecchiato, Elena
Baldo, Vincenzo
Cocchio, Silvia
Russo, Francesca
Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021
title Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021
title_full Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021
title_fullStr Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021
title_full_unstemmed Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021
title_short Surveillance of Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 Infections at School in the Veneto Region: Methods and Results of the Public Health Response during the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic between January and June 2021
title_sort surveillance of outbreaks of sars-cov-2 infections at school in the veneto region: methods and results of the public health response during the second and third waves of the pandemic between january and june 2021
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34831921
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212165
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