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School re-openings in US may increase COVID-19 spread unless targeted interventions are in place – News-Medical.Net

In a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv, a team of researchers on behalf of the Imperial College London COVID-19 Response Team used longitudinal and age-specific population mobility and COVID-19 mortality data to model and predict SARS-CoV-2 s…

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Analysis reveals 63% of the COVID-19 cases in the US until August 2020 originated from people between the ages of 20–49, while about 1.2% of the cases originated from children 0–9 years old. However, this could change as schools re-open.
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) since the beginning of 2020 has led to dramatic interventions to contain its spread. The virus spreads through human contact, so one of the strategies…

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