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ArticleDisaster medicine and public health preparedness2020

Initial Coronavirus Disease-2019 Closure Strategies Adopted by a Convenience Sample of US School Districts: Directions for Future Research.

Jeff Schlegelmilch, Claire Douglas

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Article in Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeff SchlegelmilchNational Center for Disaster Preparedness, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York.
Claire DouglasNational Center for Disaster Preparedness, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York.
Columbia University · USEarth Island Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

School closures are an important strategy to mitigate the impacts of a pandemic. But an optimal approach to transitioning from in-person to distance learning approaches is lacking. We analyzed a convenience sample of public K-12 schools in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This initial snapshot provides some insights to inform future research into the variation of strategies across school districts, and would benefit from more rigorous methods to determine true correlations between demographic and geographic factors. Additionally, many of these strategies have evolved in response to ongoing and prolonged public health social distancing measures implemented after this analysis was conducted.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Education, DistanceForecastingHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPublic HealthSchoolsUnited StatesCOVID-19infectious disease transmissionmitigationpandemicsschool closure

Identifiers

PMID32375922
PMCPMC7253765
OpenAlexW3021790507

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