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Volume 29, Number 3—March 2023
Research

COVID-19 Test Allocation Strategy to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Infections across School Districts

Remy Pasco, Kaitlyn Johnson, Spencer J. Fox, Kelly A. Pierce, Maureen Johnson-León, Michael Lachmann, David P. Morton, and Lauren Ancel MeyersComments to Author 
Author affiliations: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA (R. Pasco, K. Johnson, S.J. Fox, K.A. Pierce, M. Johnson-León, L.A. Meyers); Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (M. Lachmann, L.A. Meyers); Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (D.P. Morton)

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Figure 1

Projected effects of a COVID-19 test allocation strategy to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 infections across 11 school districts in the Austin Independent School District, Austin, Texas, USA. The whisker plots demonstrate projected effects over a 10-week period in a school with 500 students under 2 scenarios: A) assuming the household and classroom of each detected case is quarantined; or B) assuming only households (not entire classrooms) are quarantined. Colors indicate reproduction numbers as low (1.0), moderate (1.5), and high (2.0) in-school transmission risks in the absence of proactive or symptomatic testing, isolation, and quarantine. Whiskers indicate points that lie within 1.5 interquartile ranges of the lower and upper quartiles; boxes indicate interquartile range and horizontal bars indicate median fraction of students infected on-campus depending on the frequency of proactive testing as never (0), or once per every 28, 21, 14, or 7 days. Results are based on 300 stochastic simulations for each scenario.

Figure 1. Projected effects of a COVID-19 test allocation strategy to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 infections across 11 school districts in the Austin Independent School District, Austin, Texas, USA. The whisker plots demonstrate projected effects over a 10-week period in a school with 500 students under 2 scenarios: A) assuming the household and classroom of each detected case is quarantined; or B) assuming only households (not entire classrooms) are quarantined. Colors indicate reproduction numbers as low (1.0), moderate (1.5), and high (2.0) in-school transmission risks in the absence of proactive or symptomatic testing, isolation, and quarantine. Whiskers indicate points that lie within 1.5 interquartile ranges of the lower and upper quartiles; boxes indicate interquartile range and horizontal bars indicate median fraction of students infected on-campus depending on the frequency of proactive testing as never (0), or once per every 28, 21, 14, or 7 days. Results are based on 300 stochastic simulations for each scenario.

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