School Closures and Student Contact Patterns

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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume 17, Number 2–February 2011
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm

Dispatches
School Closures and Student Contact Patterns
C. Jackson et al.

Abstract
To determine how school closure for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 affected students’ contact patterns, we conducted a retrospective questionnaire survey at a UK school 2 weeks after the school reopened. School closure was associated with a 65% reduction in the mean total number of contacts for each student.