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Sanjana Pampati1,2, Zach Timpe3, Catherine Rasberry1
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Abstract:
Availability of school-based infectious disease surveillance data (eg, COVID-19 cases, student absences) based on experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic were studied using a national sample of public kindergarten through 12th grade schools (n = 1602). Based on surveys administered to school administrators throughout the 2021-2022 school year, we found high levels of missingness data for school-level COVID-19 cases, quarantines, and student absenteeism, increasing missingness over time, and variations in missingness by school characteristics (eg, school size) and protocols (eg, having a school-based system to report at-home COVID-19 tests). For the same sample of schools, using data requests to health departments, we found similarly high levels of missingness of school-level COVID-19 case data and varying approaches in data collection. Developing nationally standardized case definitions-and systems to surveil or collect and monitor school-based infectious disease outcomes early in a public health emergency-may be helpful in producing actionable data.
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