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Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study

Emily Lowthian Orcid Logo, Hoda Abbasizanjani Orcid Logo, Stuart Bedston, Ashley Akbari Orcid Logo, Laura Cowley, Rich Fry Orcid Logo, Rhiannon Owen Orcid Logo, Joseph Hollinghurst, Igor Rudan, Jillian Beggs, Emily Marchant Orcid Logo, Fatemeh Torabi Orcid Logo, Simon de Lusignan, Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Graham Moore, Aziz Sheikh, Ronan Lyons Orcid Logo

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume: 116, Issue: 12, Pages: 413 - 424

Swansea University Authors: Emily Lowthian Orcid Logo, Hoda Abbasizanjani Orcid Logo, Stuart Bedston, Ashley Akbari Orcid Logo, Laura Cowley, Rich Fry Orcid Logo, Rhiannon Owen Orcid Logo, Joseph Hollinghurst, Emily Marchant Orcid Logo, Fatemeh Torabi Orcid Logo, Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Ronan Lyons Orcid Logo

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Objectives: We investigated SARS-CoV-2 infection trends, risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination uptake among school staff, students and their household members in Wales, UK.Design: Seven-day average of SARS-CoV-2 infections and polymerase chain reaction tests per 1000 people daily, cu...

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Hoda Abbasizanjani
Stuart Bedston
Ashley Akbari
Laura Cowley
Rich Fry
Rhiannon Owen
Joseph Hollinghurst
Emily Marchant
Fatemeh Torabi
Tom Crick
Ronan Lyons
title_short Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study
title_full Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study
title_fullStr Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study
title_full_unstemmed Trends in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in school staff, students and their household members from 2020 to 2022 in Wales, UK: an electronic cohort study
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description Objectives: We investigated SARS-CoV-2 infection trends, risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination uptake among school staff, students and their household members in Wales, UK.Design: Seven-day average of SARS-CoV-2 infections and polymerase chain reaction tests per 1000 people daily, cumulative incidence of COVID-19 vaccination uptake and multi-level Poisson models with time-varying covariates. Setting: National electronic cohort between September 2020 and May 2022 when several variants were predominant in the UK (Alpha, Delta and Omicron). Participants: School students aged 4 to 10/11 years (primary school and younger middle school, n = 238,163), and 11 to 15/16 years (secondary school and older middle school, n = 182,775), school staff in Wales (n = 47,963) and the household members of students and staff (n = 697,659). Main outcome measures: SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination uptake.
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