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College towns saw fewer COVID-19 cases when classes were held online and/or on-campus testing was conducted – suggesting regular tests could reduce future community infections

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College towns saw fewer COVID-19 cases when classes were held online and/or on-campus testing was conducted – suggesting regular tests could reduce future community infections

image: Each dot is a college that included in the dataset, which covers schools that enroll up to 85% of college students in the United States. Description of the Campus COVID Dataset. view more 

Credit: Klein B et al., 2022, PLOS Digital Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

College towns saw fewer COVID-19 cases when classes were held online and/or on-campus testing was conducted – suggesting regular tests could reduce future community infections

In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available article in PLOS Digital Health: https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000065

Article Title: Higher education responses to COVID-19 in the United States: Evidence for the impacts of university policy

Author Countries: United States

Funding: A.V. and M.C. acknowledge support from COVID Supplement CDC-HHS-6U01IP001137-01 and Cooperative Agreement no. NU38OT000297 from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). A.V. acknowledges support from the Chleck Foundation. N.G. acknowledges LA-UR-21-25928. The findings and conclusions in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the funding agencies, The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, or U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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