Despite the overall success of school closures, a study of school closures in Michigan found that “reactive school closures at the district level have been ineffective.” During the 2009 swine flu epidemic in the UK, in an article titled “School closures during an influenza pandemic” published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, a group of epidemiologists supported the closure of schools in order to interrupt the evolution of the infection, slow its spread and gain time to study and develop a vaccine.
Licha ya mafanikio kwa ujumla ya kufungwa kwa shule, uchunguzi wa kufungwa kwa shule huko Michigan ilipata kuwa &quot;kufungwa kwa shule katika kiwango cha wilaya hazikuwa na ufanisi.&quot;Katika mkurupuko wa homa ya mafua ya nguruwe mnamo 2009 huko UK, katika nakala iliyo na mada &quot;Kufungwa kwa shule katika janga la homa ya mafua&quot; iliyochapishwa katika Magonjwa ya Kuambukizwa ya Lancet, kikundi cha wanasayansi wanaochunguza magonjwa katika idadi ya watu waliidhinisha kufungwa kwa shule ili kukatiza mkondo wa maambukizi, kupunguza kuenea zaidi na kupata muda wa kufanya utafiti na kutengeneza chanjo.