[A structural method to assess the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in school environmentsMétodo estructural para examinar el curso de la pandemia por el SARS-CoV-2 en ambientes escolares].

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed several dilemmas for managers in the public sector, with school reopening being among the most complex decisions. The present article presents a microsimulation model of the pandemic course considering various scenarios within the confines of a classroom in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. For that, a susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model was integrated with a random graph model, associating epidemiological characteristics with sociometric and sociodemographic factors.