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SUMMARY:Modelling the impact of lateral flow testing and isolation of clos
 e contacts on Covid-19 transmission within secondary schools in England - 
 Trystan Leng\, University of Warwick
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CONTACT:Dr Ciara Dangerfield
DESCRIPTION: Since secondary schools have fully reopened\, secondary schoo
 l pupils have been strongly encouraged to participate in twice weekly mass
  testing using lateral flow device tests (LFTs)\, to minimise the increase
  in transmission associated with reopening schools. Other strategies invol
 ving LFTs have also been considered previously\, such as serial contact te
 sting. This talk presents an individual-based model used to evaluate the r
 elative impact of different school reopening strategies on within-school t
 ransmission and absences\, before discussing how this model can be extende
 d to gain an insight into the impact that mass testing via LFTs is having 
 on within-school transmission at current levels of uptake.
LOCATION:Zoom
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