If you haven't read it yet, this short report seems to conclude that for reasons that are not yet well understood, children are not very likely to contract the

If you haven't read it yet, this short report seems to conclude that for reasons that are not yet well understood, children are not very likely to contract the disease, and if they do contract it, are not that likely to spread it to others. As a result, school closings (or the lack thereof) do not seem to have a major effect on the spread of the disease. Pulling some key quotes: "Outbreak investigations in Finland has not shown children to be contributing much in terms of transmission and in Sweden a report comparing risk of covid-19 in different professions, showed no increased risk for teachers." "In conclusion, closure or not of schools had no measurable direct impact on the number of laboratory confirmed cases in school-aged children in Finland or Sweden" "In the contact tracings in primary schools in Finland, there has been hardly any evidence of children infecting other persons. The Swedish comparison of number of reported cases among staff in day care and primary school to number of cases in other professions does not show any increased risk for teachers. This also indicates that the role of children in propagating this infection is likely to be small. Various papers on contact tracing have also found that children rarely are the first case in family clusters (4, 12, 13)." "Closing of schools had no measurable effect on the number of cases of covid- 19 among children." "Children are not a major risk group of the covid-19 disease and seem to play a less important role from the transmission point of view, although more active surveillance and special studies such as school and household transmission studies are warranted." Intriguing. This Mercury News article from a couple days ago tells the same general story, and offers some theories on how things might work biologically: Coronavirus: Why kids aren’t the germbags, and grownups are. As school districts sweat over reopening plans, a growing body of research suggests young children are unlikely to transmit COVID-19 virus. They get it from us. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-kids-arent-the-germbags-and-grownups-are/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-kids-...