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DeJonge PM; Peter DeJonge is with the Epidemic Intelligence Service, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison. Ian W. Pray, Katherine McCoy, Carrie Tomasallo, and Jonathan Meiman are with the Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Ronald Gangnon is with the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison., Pray IW; Peter DeJonge is with the Epidemic Intelligence Service, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison. Ian W. Pray, Katherine McCoy, Carrie Tomasallo, and Jonathan Meiman are with the Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Ronald Gangnon is with the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison., Gangnon R; Peter DeJonge is with the Epidemic Intelligence Service, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison. Ian W. Pray, Katherine McCoy, Carrie Tomasallo, and Jonathan Meiman are with the Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Ronald Gangnon is with the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison., McCoy K; Peter DeJonge is with the Epidemic Intelligence Service, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison. Ian W. Pray, Katherine McCoy, Carrie Tomasallo, and Jonathan Meiman are with the Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Ronald Gangnon is with the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison., Tomasallo C; Peter DeJonge is with the Epidemic Intelligence Service, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison. Ian W. Pray, Katherine McCoy, Carrie Tomasallo, and Jonathan Meiman are with the Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Ronald Gangnon is with the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison., Meiman J; Peter DeJonge is with the Epidemic Intelligence Service, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison. Ian W. Pray, Katherine McCoy, Carrie Tomasallo, and Jonathan Meiman are with the Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Ronald Gangnon is with the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
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Objectives. To assess the rate of COVID-19 among in-person K-12 educators and the rate's association with various COVID-19 prevention policies in school districts. Methods. We linked actively working, in-person K-12 educators in Wisconsin to COVID-19 cases with onset from September 2 to November 24, 2021. A mixed-effects Cox proportional hazards model, adjusted for pertinent person- and community-level confounders, compared the hazard rate of COVID-19 among educators working in districts with and without specific COVID-19 prevention policies. Results. In-person educators working in school districts that required masking for students and staff experienced 19% lower hazards of COVID-19 than did those in districts without any masking policy (hazard ratio = 0.81; 95% confidence interval = 0.72, 0.92). Reduced COVID-19 hazards were consistent and remained statistically significant when educators were stratified by elementary, middle, and high school environments. Conclusions. In Wisconsin's K-12 school districts, during the fall 2021 academic semester, a policy that required both students and staff to mask was associated with significantly reduced risk of COVID-19 among in-person educators across all grade levels. ( Am J Public Health. 2022;112(12):1791-1799. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307095). |
