Infection and transmission risks of COVID-19 in schools and their contribution to population infections in Germany: A retrospective observational study using nationwide and regional health and education agency notification data

• Torben Heinsohn ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Torben.Heinsohn@helmholtz-hzi.de

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Braunschweig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1175-2633

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• Berit Lange ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Braunschweig, Germany

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• Patrizio Vanella,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany, Chair of Empirical Methods in Social Science and Demography, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6736-6774

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• Isti Rodiah,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Braunschweig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4365-1615

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• Stephan Glöckner,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7975-9049

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• Alexander Joachim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6724-0015

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• Dennis Becker,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Public Health Department Konstanz, Gottmadingen, Germany

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• Tobias Brändle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Educational Monitoring and Quality Development, Agency for Schools and Vocational Training, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8872-9872

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• Stefan Dhein,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Public Health Department Altenburger Land, Altenburg, Germany

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• Stefan Ehehalt,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Public Health Department Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Mira Fries,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Public Health Department Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Annette Galante-Gottschalk,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Public Health Department Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2024-0979

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• Stefanie Jehnichen,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Public Health Department Konstanz, Gottmadingen, Germany

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• Sarah Kolkmann,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Public Health Department Altenburger Land, Altenburg, Germany

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• Annelene Kossow,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Public Health Department Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Hygiene, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

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• Martin Hellmich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Jörg Dötsch ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jörg Dötsch, Gérard Krause

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Gérard Krause

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jörg Dötsch, Gérard Krause

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Braunschweig, Germany, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3328-8808

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