North Carolina Public School Teachers’ Contact Patterns and Mask Use Within and Outside of School During the Pre-Vaccine Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Powers, K. A., Sullivan, K. M., Zadrozny, S. L., Shook-Sa, B. E., Byrnes, R., Bogojevich, D. A., Lauren, D. L., Thompson, P., Robinson, W. R., Gordon-Larsen, P., & Aeillo, A. E.

December

2021

From the abstract: "Teachers are central to school-associated transmission networks, but little is known about their behavioral patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. As schools reopened in the COVID-19 pandemic, potential transmission opportunities arose through close contacts within and outside of school, along with suboptimal mask use by teachers and/or those around them. Our granular estimates underscore the importance of multi-layered mitigation strategies and can inform interventions and mathematical models addressing school-associated transmission."

Citation

Powers, K. A., Sullivan, K. M., Zadrozny, S. L., Shook-Sa, B. E., Byrnes, R., Bogojevich, D. A., Lauren, D. L., Thompson, P., Robinson, W. R., Gordon-Larsen, P., & Aeillo, A. E. (2021). North Carolina public school teachers’ contact patterns and mask use within and outside of school during the pre-vaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. American Journal of Infection Control. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.12.020