RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A team of researchers found “extremely limited” secondary spread of COVID-19 in its study of the K-12 schools across North Carolina that followed mitigation measures including masking and distancing.
The study by the ABC Science Collaborative, a joint effort from researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, found just 32 cases of secondary transmission in schools among roughly 90,000 students and staff in 11 districts across the state with in-person instruction over nine weeks last fall.
“I would like to think that parents can look at the study and draw a lot of confidence from it,” said Dr. Bob Grimesey, superintendent of Moore County Schools, one of the districts taking part in the study.
The researchers found there were 773 lab-confirmed COVID-19 infections acquired via the community, and wrote that they expected up to 900 infections in schools if secondary transmission were as common there as in the community.
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