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Economic Cost and Health Care Workforce Effects of School Closures in the U.S.

Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: School closure is an important component of U.S. pandemic flu mitigation strategy, but has important costs. We give estimates of both the direct economic and health care impacts for school closure durations of 2, 4, 6, and 12 weeks under a range of assumptions. We find that closing all schools in the U.S. for four weeks could cost between $10 and $47 billion dollars (0.1-0.3% of GDP) and lead to a reduction of 6% to 19% in key health care personnel.
DOI: 10.1371/currents.rrn1051
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: Johns Hopkins University, University of Pittsburgh, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Naval Research, NIH Office of the Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Awards: Computational Models of Infectious Disease Threats, G3282464906, G5245861700, G7932487403, G8876996369, G9000194716
OpenAlex ID: W2086933649
FWCI: 2.877
Cites: 7
Cited by: 91
Related to: 10