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What has been shown however, is that for sars-cov-2 that young people are asymptomatic carriers at much higher rates than for other infections. And what has als
by nullc 7y ago
What has been shown however, is that for sars-cov-2 that young people are asymptomatic carriers at much higher rates than for other infections. And what has also been shown is that the R0 for other respiratory infections is tremendously higher in schools than in the general population.
Though it has not been proven that schools are a hotbed of contagion for sars-cov-2, there is a lot of reason to expect them to be and little reason to expect that they aren't.
- Gupie 7y agoAn argument against closing the schools is that they will be looked after by their grandparents.
- starfallg 7y agoThere's already some data regarding this point, because we have countries that have done this early like Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea and none of them have reported this as a major factor in the known cases.