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From the CDC > Findings from several studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission among students is relatively rare, particularly when prevention strategies ar

by ch4s3 4y ago

From the CDC > Findings from several studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission among students is relatively rare, particularly when prevention strategies are in place. An Australian study of 39 COVID-19 cases among 32 students and seven staff traced contacts across 28 schools and six early childhood centers and found only 33 secondary positive cases (28 students and five staff members) out of 3,439 close child contacts and 385 close staff contacts.58, 59 Several contact tracing studies have found limited student-to-student transmission in schools.47, 54, 60, 61 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/transmission_k_12_schools.html#schools-cov2-transmission https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br... To date only about 1200 people 18 and under have died from/with COVID, and those numbers were far lower before the B variants.

mrguyorama 4y ago
>An Australian study of 39 COVID-19 cases among 32 students and seven staff A study about Australian schooling and children probably doesn't hold as much here in the US. My family involves lots of teachers. The numbers they came up with do not even remotely track with what they saw in their own schools.
- ch4s3 4y ago
  Well then here's a meta-analysis from June 2020[1], the time in question vis-vis school closures. A study from 2021 finding that school closures had little effect on community transmission[2]. Here's another from 2020[3]. Here's another from last year showing lower transmission by children[4]. >The numbers they came up with do not even remotely track with what they saw in their own schools. What the research suggests is that you're probably seeing kids under 12 getting COVID from adults. You can poke around google scholar and see for yourself. Public health articles are quite readable. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311007/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311007/ [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S018844092100148X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S018844092... [3] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.21.2000903 https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E... [4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ppul.25344 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ppul.25344

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mrguyorama 4y ago

>An Australian study of 39 COVID-19 cases among 32 students and seven staff A study about Australian schooling and children probably doesn't hold as much here in the US. My family involves lots of teachers. The numbers they came up with do not even remotely track with what they saw in their own schools.

ch4s3 4y ago
Well then here's a meta-analysis from June 2020[1], the time in question vis-vis school closures. A study from 2021 finding that school closures had little effect on community transmission[2]. Here's another from 2020[3]. Here's another from last year showing lower transmission by children[4]. >The numbers they came up with do not even remotely track with what they saw in their own schools. What the research suggests is that you're probably seeing kids under 12 getting COVID from adults. You can poke around google scholar and see for yourself. Public health articles are quite readable. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311007/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311007/ [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S018844092100148X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S018844092... [3] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.21.2000903 https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E... [4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ppul.25344 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ppul.25344