id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-349899-3hprecor Cohen, J. A. Schools are not islands: Balancing COVID-19 risk and educational benefits using structural and temporal countermeasures 2020-09-10 .txt text/plain 6430 308 53 We compared seven school reopening strategies that vary the degree of countermeasures within schools to mitigate COVID-19 transmission, including the use of face masks, physical distancing, classroom cohorting, screening, testing, and contact tracing, as well as schedule changes to reduce the number of students in school. For each scenario, we calculated the percentage of schools that would have at least one person arriving at school with an active COVID-19 infection on the first day of school; the percentage of in-person school days that would be lost due to scheduled distance learning, symptomatic screening or quarantine; the cumulative infection rate for students, staff and teachers over the first three months of school; and the effective reproduction number averaged over the first three months of school within the community. ./cache/cord-349899-3hprecor.txt ./txt/cord-349899-3hprecor.txt