TY - JOUR AU - Wu, Joseph T. AU - Cowling, Benjamin J. AU - Lau, Eric H.Y. AU - Ip, Dennis K.M. AU - Ho, Lai-Ming AU - Tsang, Thomas AU - Chuang, Shuk-Kwan AU - Leung, Pak-Yin AU - Lo, Su-Vui AU - Liu, Shao-Haei AU - Riley, Steven T1 - School Closure and Mitigation of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Hong Kong T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 3 SP - 538 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In Hong Kong, kindergartens and primary schools were closed when local transmission of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 was identified. Secondary schools closed for summer vacation shortly afterwards. By fitting a model of reporting and transmission to case data, we estimated that transmission was reduced ≈25% when secondary schools closed. KW - Influenza KW - pandemic KW - mitigation KW - mathematical modeling KW - viruses KW - H1N1 KW - Hong Kong KW - expedited KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1603.091216 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/3/09-1216_article ER - End of Reference