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    The effect of COVID-19 stay-at-home order and campus closure on the prevalence of acute respiratory infection symptoms in college campus cohorts.
    (2020-12-12) Adenaiye, Oluwasanmi; Bueno de Mesquita, Paul; Wu, Qiong; Hong, Filbert; Chen, Shuo; Milton, Donald
    Evaluation of population-based COVID-19 control measures informs strategies to quell the current pandemic and reduce the impact of those yet to come. Effective COVID-19 control measures may simultaneously reduce the incidence of other acute respiratory infections (ARIs) due to shared transmission modalities. To assess the impact of stay-at-home orders and other physical distancing measures on the prevalence of ARI-related symptoms, we compared symptoms reported by prospective college cohorts enrolled during two consecutive academic years. ARI-related symptoms declined following campus closure and implementation of stay-at-home orders, demonstrating the impact of population-based physical distancing measures on control of a broad range of respiratory infections.
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    TRACKING ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFEECTIONS IN A COLLEGE RESIDENT COMMUNITY
    (2018) Adenaiye, Oluwasanmi; Milton, Donald K; Public and Community Health; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Influenza and other acute respiratory infections (ARIs) contribute significantly to human morbidity and mortality globally. Animal experiments and human challenge studies have not provided an adequate explanation about the relative importance of social, behavioral and physical environment in the transmission of ARIs and are limited due to uncertainty about the generalizability of their findings to a natural infection. Also, household transmission studies seldom characterize all potential transmission covariates e.g. environmental conditions, leaving a gap in the knowledge of transmission mechanisms. Here, we describe the design and preliminary results of an extensive college dormitory ARI transmission study that has the potential to characterize several important ARI transmission covariates; we critically appraise the design and show how the findings from such design can be applied to answer most of the vital questions that exist about the transmission of ARIs.