The authors conclude it is likely that young children, while not as prone to suffering from Covid-19 infection, still drive its spread—just as they do with several other respiratory diseases.
The researchers found that although young children had a somewhat lower risk of infection than adults and were less likely to become ill, children age 14 and younger transmit the virus more efficiently to other children and adults than adults themselves. Their risk of transmitting Covid-19 was 22.4 percent—more than twice that of adults aged 30 to 49, whose rate of contagiousness was about 11 percent.
Both studies spell serious implications for countries contemplating whether or not to reopen schools in the face of lingering and out-of-control outbreaks, the United States included. Even if children are required to keep their hands to themselves, refrain from sharing toys and supplies, and wear masks at all times, we can’t realistically expect them to follow such rules without fail. So long as misbehavior is a possibility, so too is the rampant spread of infection.
VictorianCHO Can you please comment on these studies and the need for remote learning including childcare services post-stage 4?
WE NEED ANALYSES to define cause and effect and weight the importance of independent variables like PPE vs. distancing vs. quarantine vs. hygiene on diffusion models, and to identify mediating and moderating factors like store openings. Policy cannot be based on ignorance.
Yeah let’s trust Forbes magazine....LMFAO!
DavidSteadson Anna_Ekstrom vad ska ni göra för att minska risken för alla lärare som ska börja jobba om en vecka? Förtjänar inte de samma uppsäkrade arbetsmiljö som busschaufförer, ingenjörer, etc? Lararforbundet lararnas varför agerar ni inte för era medlemmars skull?
Sandra_Sully And next what ? 🙄🙄🙄
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Golly gee...like that is ground breaking new to any logical parent.
This is not new. We’ve known this.
Schools are safe..
mcquillan_ruth I had exemplar good health (hey, we are in the world beating UK) until my children started school. All of a sudden I was mowed down by every available virus. Children in close proximity will share germs.
You haven’t read the study. Statistical trick (think false 97% climate scientists stat) used yet again. 8 cases out of 6,690 (0.12%) spread by children in closed contact (household) environment. Not 8/49 (22%). Also those contracting the virus were ‘less likely to become cases’.
If this is true spare a thought for all those Early Childhood Educators putting their lives and their families lives at risk everyday
Come on PVO... this is entirely political because Trump wants to open schools. Where are all the secondary outbreaks via school kids in Australia then? There are none. None! The USA are about to go down your anti open schools rabbit hole. Don’t fall for it 🤦♂️
Duh
You need a study for that?
More BS being spread by another global media giant that has forgotten to stick with topics it actually has some knowledge about. Seems like your desktop journalists are suffering from boredom.
USA science timeline. Covid19 is a hoax. It will disappear magically. No evidence of human transmission. Masks are not effective. It can not transmit from humans to animals. It only kills people with pre existing conditions and elderly. Children are not affected. All wrong.
It is not surprising.
Lol, is that in the Dem platform
Seems obvious to me
Efficiently?🤔🤦🏽♂️🌚what the fuck yoh! 🤦🏽♂️😂😂
POTUS realDonaldTrump Check this Spanky! I predict with widespread school opening there will be a resurgence in Covid_19! There is no bargaining with a virus thats sole purpose is to kill humans, yet we continue to try... TrumpHasNoPlan TrumpIsANationalDisgrace TrumpVirus
It says they spread it more efficiently, not that they have a higher risk of developing the illness. There's a difference. Read. And this shouldnt really come as a surprise. Just reflects how common sense has escaped us miserably.
so what are you suggesting 'Herod the Great',
I quoted this article when giving evidence to UK members of Parliament at the AppgCoronavirus session on LongCovid this week. My 3 kids all had LongCovid for 2+ months but many are unaware of the risk to people of all ages.
New
Anyone trying to explain how science has flip flopped so much over the last 6 months?
Tell that to Sweden and other countries that never closed schools or have reopened them.
Picking your nose ans touching everything. WashYourHands
realDonaldTrump
Children were out, now they are in? Interesting how that works.
Where is this evidence coming from
What's really going on with science? Previously they were saying adults are more likely than kids and since Trump has been pushing for schools to reopen they say kids are more likely. Politics?
Well, kids really never wash their hands and even cover their mouth when they cough or sneeze.
Get back to school fearMongering hydroxychloriquineworks
Trump already knows that, that's why he wants to open schools.
GTFOH.
Any parent could have told you that.
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