Figure 5
From: Developing guidelines for school closure interventions to be used during a future influenza pandemic
Daily epidemic progression curves for different school closure activation triggers. The daily incidence curves of the simulated epidemics (with R0 values of 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5) with the activation trigger that would be given the maximum reduction in attack rate (as Optimal trigger) and the activation trigger at a single symptomatic case (as Single case trigger) for individual school closure (ISC) and simultaneous school closure (SSC) strategies for 2, 4 and 8 weeks duration are shown. The red epidemic curves are for the baseline or un-mitigated epidemics for corresponding R0s. Blue and light green curves are for the prompt triggered ISC and SSC strategies. The other pink and dark green lines are for the best triggered ISC and SSC strategies.