Daily testing for contacts of individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection and attendance and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in English secondary schools and colleges: an open-label, cluster-randomised trial

Accepted/In Press date: 19 August 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 14 September 2021

Published date: 2 October 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: We acknowledge all the students and staff at participating schools, as well as ten pilot schools, for contributing to the study, and in particular the study workers at each of the schools. We are thankful to the Microbiology Department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for doing PCR testing. Additionally, we acknowledge the support in conducting the study of the Department of Health and Social Care daily contact testing project management team, especially Nichole Solomon, and the Office for National Statistics daily contact testing team. We thank Department for Education colleagues, particularly Sara Cooper, Matt Mawer, and Richard Lumley for their assistance. We thank Sarah Walker for insightful advice. This study was funded by the UK Government Department of Health and Social Care and supported by the UK Government Department for Education and Office for National Statistics. The work was also supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at Oxford University in partnership with Public Health England (NIHR200915) and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education, the Office for National Statistics, or Public Health England. BCY is an NIHR clinical lecturer. BCY, TEAP, and LY received grants from the Department of Health and Social Care to fund this work. DWE is a Robertson Foundation Fellow. LY is an NIHR Senior Investigator and her research programme is partly supported by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration?West, NIHR HPRU for Behavioural Science and Evaluation, and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. Funding Information: We acknowledge all the students and staff at participating schools, as well as ten pilot schools, for contributing to the study, and in particular the study workers at each of the schools. We are thankful to the Microbiology Department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for doing PCR testing. Additionally, we acknowledge the support in conducting the study of the Department of Health and Social Care daily contact testing project management team, especially Nichole Solomon, and the Office for National Statistics daily contact testing team. We thank Department for Education colleagues, particularly Sara Cooper, Matt Mawer, and Richard Lumley for their assistance. We thank Sarah Walker for insightful advice. This study was funded by the UK Government Department of Health and Social Care and supported by the UK Government Department for Education and Office for National Statistics. The work was also supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at Oxford University in partnership with Public Health England (NIHR200915) and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education, the Office for National Statistics, or Public Health England. BCY is an NIHR clinical lecturer. BCY, TEAP, and LY received grants from the Department of Health and Social Care to fund this work. DWE is a Robertson Foundation Fellow. LY is an NIHR Senior Investigator and her research programme is partly supported by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration–West, NIHR HPRU for Behavioural Science and Evaluation, and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords: Contacts, Lateral Flow Testing, SARS-CoV-2, Schools, Testing, covid-19

Local EPrints ID: 452184

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/452184

DOI: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01908-5

ISSN: 0140-6736

PURE UUID: 7dcdae23-5c6a-4302-b682-44e4e9e2a4c0

ORCID for Lucy Yardley: orcid.org/0000-0002-3853-883X

Date deposited: 29 Nov 2021 17:32

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