It is a novel virus, but not a magic virus like the press says. Take for example the brain infections: it's a feature of other coronaviruses (and I only found o

It is a novel virus, but not a magic virus like the press says. Take for example the brain infections: it's a feature of other coronaviruses (and I only found out by reading the literature), not just this one. The school closure was criticized basing on current evidence in an editorial[1] on Disease and Childhood (sister publication of the British Medical Journal). They also go over the reports of Kawasaki disease saying that there needs to be more evidence to support the claim. Also a limited test in two schools in New Wales, where contact tracing was used, there was one reported infection of a student by another out of 853 recorded contacts. There are indications that a. grave effects are rare in children (rare does not mean zero) and b. children aren't as good "spreaders" of this disease as adults. [1] https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/05/archdischild-2020-319474 https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/05/archdischild-20...