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School closings with virtual or hybrid education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively affected education as well as the incomes of parents who must sacrifice work as they provide educational support for their children. Studies in Sweden and the U.S. have examined school-related SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
The Swedish study utilized the fact that upper secondary schools (USS; student age range, 17–19) went completely online while lower secondary schools (LSS; age range, 14–16) remained open, to compare the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 among teachers, their partners, and school parents in these two educational environments (student acquisition was not studied). LSS teachers had the seventh-highest SARS-CoV-2 incidence in the country am…