Class-specific school closures for seasonal influenza: Optimizing timing and duration to prevent disease spread and minimize educational losses

• Yukiko Masumoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of School and Public Health Nursing, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Department of Welfare, Seinan Jo Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Hiromi Kawasaki,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of School and Public Health Nursing, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Ryota Matsuyama,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu City, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Miwako Tsunematsu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Informatics, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Masayuki Kakehashi

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kakehashi@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Health Informatics, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9675-9761

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