Economic cost and health care workforce effects of school closures in the U.S.

作者: Howard Lempel , Joshua M Epstein , Ross A Hammond

DOI: 10.1371/CURRENTS.RRN1051

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摘要: School closure is an important component of U.S. pandemic flu mitigation strategy, but has costs. We give estimates both the direct economic and health care impacts for school durations 2, 4, 6, 12 weeks under a range assumptions. find that closing all schools in four could cost between $10 $47 billion dollars (0.1-0.3% GDP) lead to reduction 6% 19% key personnel.

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