Causes, characteristics, and patterns of prolonged unplanned school closures prior to the COVID-19 pandemic—United States, 2011–2019

• Ferdous A. Jahan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ferdous A. Jahan, Nicole Zviedrite

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

  Affiliations Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Cherokee Nation Operational Solutions, LLC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Nicole Zviedrite ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ferdous A. Jahan, Nicole Zviedrite

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: NZviedrite@cdc.gov

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0967-096X

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• Hongjiang Gao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Faruque Ahmed,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Amra Uzicanin

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9738-3946

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