The Impact of a Policy of Daily Testing of COVID-19 Cases on Attendance
1 A cluster randomised trial of the impact of a policy of daily testing for 2 contacts of COVID-19 cases on attendance and COVID-19 3 transmission in English secondary schools and colleges 4 5 Authors 6 Bernadette C Young1*, David W Eyre2,3,4*, Saroj Kendrick5, Chris White5, Sylvester Smith5, 7 George Beveridge5, Toby Nonnemacher5, Fegor Ichofu5, Joseph Hillier5, Ian Diamond6, Emma 8 Rourke6, Fiona Dawe6, Ieuan Day6, Lisa Davies6, Paul Staite6, Andrea Lacey6, James McCrae6, 9 Ffion Jones6, Joseph Kelly6, Urszula Bankiewicz6, Sarah Tunkel5, Richard Ovens7, David 10 Chapman7, Peter Marks5, Nick Hicks5,8,9, Tom Fowler5,10, Susan Hopkins8, Lucy Yardley11, Tim 11 EA Peto1,2,3 12 13 14 Affiliations 15 1. Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 16 2. NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United 17 Kingdom 18 3. NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in in Healthcare Associated Infections and 19 Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 20 4. Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, 21 Oxford, United Kingdom 22 5. Department of Health and Social Care, UK 23 6. Office for National Statistics, UK 24 7. Deloitte MCS limited, UK 25 8. Public Health England, UK 26 9. Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, 27 UK. 28 10. William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London UK 29 11. Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, 30 UK 31 32 * These authors contributed equally to this work 33 34 Corresponding 35 Professor Tim Peto, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe 36 Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU.
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