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. 2010 Aug;16(8):1315-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1608.091827.

Household effects of school closure during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA

Thomas L Gift  1 , Rakhee S Palekar, Samir V Sodha, Charlotte K Kent, Ryan P Fagan, W Roodly Archer, Paul J Edelson, Tiffany Marchbanks, Achuyt Bhattarai, David Swerdlow, Stephen Ostroff, Martin I Meltzer; Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group
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Household effects of school closure during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA

Thomas L Gift et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Aug.

Abstract

To determine the effects of school closure, we surveyed 214 households after a 1-week elementary school closure because of pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Students spent 77% of the closure days at home, 69% of students visited at least 1 other location, and 79% of households reported that adults missed no days of work to watch children.

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