‘Enhancing the utilization of COVID-19 testing in schools’, is a study which will look at the characteristics of long COVID and COVID-19 infection in children.

Over the last few months we’ve been carrying on our research by testing for COVID19 in schools. We have also started our substudy research and Household study.

Pupils at a Bristol school became scientists for a day to understand more about how PCR testing works to diagnose for Covid-19.

Study finds families and staff support school Covid-19 measures and testing, but action is needed to avoid widening inequalities. Families and staff support school Covid-19 infection control measures and welcome the roll out testing in schools, a Bristol study has found.

We’ve been rethinking the study in light of school closures, continuing testing where we can, and planning evaluation of lateral flow tests.

The CoMMins study will test whether 1,000 staff and 4,000 pupils from ~20 primary and secondary schools in the Bristol area have active or past Covid-19 infection.

The CoMMins study will test whether 1,000 staff and 4,000 pupils from ~20 primary and secondary schools in the Bristol area have active or past Covid-19 infection.

In August the funding for the CoMMinS project was confirmed and since then the team has been working hard to set up the study.