Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(6)
"I've learned nothing for two years," Chantalle said, as she told me how she had "lost" the last two years of schooling through unpredictable class closures, absenteeism of teachers who were frequently replaced by unqualified substitutes, the constant emotional stress from not having enough money for food, books, school fees or bus fare.
Additional text describing (i) the results obtained with different set of parameters for the epidemic model and (ii) the comparison between targeted and random class closures.
Although immediate school or class closures were implemented, the pandemic began in the middle of November and peaked during week 50, which was 6 weeks later than the Tokyo peak (5).
The target population for this study was households in which a child had been asked to go into home quarantine during the outbreak, from schools affected by class closures during the outbreak.
For countries and administrative regions that provided information, Figure 3 shows the total number of schools and number of schools per 1 million inhabitants, which were affected by school, grade or class closures.
School closure was deemed appropriate by 110 parents (47%); however, 91 (45%) parents of 202 asymptomatic students reported taking >1 day off work to care for their child, and 713535%) had to make childcare arrangements because of the class closures.
Similar(54)
one random class, different from the one in which symptomatic individuals are detected, is closed ("random class closure" strategy) the class and a randomly chosen one in a different grade are closed ("mixed class closure" strategy).
The targeted class closure strategy already yields a large reduction of the epidemic peak, and this reduction is only slightly improved by the targeted grade closure and whole school closure strategies (for the same closure durations).
If, on the contrary, this percentage is stable we would have an indicator of certain class closure, even if we can not exclude a possible carousel effect, i.e. that people move forward and backwards from unskilled to skilled occupations.
A series of infection control measures, such as morning check, routine disinfection of daily utensils, tools and environment surfaces, case isolation and class closure upon the appearance of cluster cases, have been strengthened in mainland China since the 2008 outbreak.
Temporary school or class closure was performed when the number of infected patients reached the prescribed proportion of 10% in a given week or was decided by the principal of each school.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com