High COVID-19 transmission potential associated with re-opening universities can be mitigated with layered interventions

E Brooks-Pollock, H Christensen, A Trickey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Controlling COVID-19 transmission in universities poses challenges due to the complex
social networks and potential for asymptomatic spread. We developed a stochastic …

Agent-based modelling of reactive vaccination of workplaces and schools against COVID-19

B Faucher, R Assab, J Roux, D Levy-Bruhl… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
With vaccination against COVID-19 stalled in some countries, increasing vaccine
accessibility and distribution could help keep transmission under control. Here, we study the …

Contacts and behaviours of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of the 2020/2021 academic year

E Nixon, A Trickey, H Christensen, A Finn, A Thomas… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
University students have unique living, learning and social arrangements which may have
implications for infectious disease transmission. To address this data gap, we created …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a UK university setting

EM Hill, BD Atkins, MJ Keeling, MJ Tildesley, L Dyson - Epidemics, 2021 - Elsevier
Around 40% of school leavers in the UK attend university and individual universities
generally host thousands of students each academic year. Bringing together these student …

A longitudinal study of the impact of university student return to campus on the SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among the community members

CRK Arnold, S Srinivasan, S Rodriguez, N Rydzak… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Returning university students represent large-scale, transient demographic shifts and a
potential source of transmission to adjacent communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. In …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in a university community: a longitudinal study of the impact of student return to campus on infection risk among community …

CRK Arnold, S Srinivasan, S Rodriguez, N Rydzak… - MedRxiv, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Returning university students represent large-scale, transient demographic
shifts and a potential source of transmission to adjacent communities during the COVID-19 …

Covid-19 transmission modelling of students returning home from university

PR Harper, JW Moore, TE Woolley - Health Systems, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We provide an open-source model to estimate the number of secondary Covid-19 infections
caused by potentially infectious students returning from university to private homes with …

A network modelling approach to assess non-pharmaceutical disease controls in a worker population: An application to SARS-CoV-2

EM Hill, BD Atkins, MJ Keeling, L Dyson… - PLOS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
As part of a concerted pandemic response to protect public health, businesses can enact
non-pharmaceutical controls to minimise exposure to pathogens in workplaces and …

Performance of Three Tests for SARS-CoV-2 on a University Campus Estimated Jointly with Bayesian Latent Class Modeling

TA Perkins, M Stephens, W Alvarez Barrios… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Accurate tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have
been critical in efforts to control its spread. The accuracy of tests for SARS-CoV-2 has been …

High prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 swab positivity in England during September 2020: interim report of round 5 of REACT-1 study

S Riley, KEC Ainslie, O Eales, CE Walters, H Wang… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background REACT-1 is a community survey of PCR confirmed swab-positivity for SARS-
CoV-2 among random samples of the population in England. This interim report includes …