Some children are going to be minimally ill but are going to carry the virus home to grandma and she is going to die. Despite more than one person's continuing attempts to minimize the seriousness of this disease, children do catch it and do spread it. They catch it less often, become less ill, and spread it less frequently. But they do all of those things.
So posting a CDC table listing deaths from covid 19 and other causes by age group is minimizing the seriousness of the disease? The facts are quite clear, people 24 and under represent 31% of the USA population and 171 of them have died from Covid 19. More people in that age group die of the flu every year. According to CDC 185 children under 18 have died from the flu this year. Compared to covid 19, more children catch the flu, are hospitalized by the flu, die from the flu, and most important, children are super spreaders of the flu. Opposite is true for Covid 19 in that age group.
So maybe schools should just stay closed forever because the flu comes every year. Kids die from lots of things, statistically their deaths from covid 19 is almost zero.
Data from other countries where there is not an ongoing surge in cases may not translate to here. We are now over a half year into this pandemic. There is still no effective cure nor preventative. There is only risk reduction with social distancing [impossible in a school], mask wearing [extremely unrealistic with children], and handwashing may or may not play a role but it doesn't happen with kids.
Why wouldn't it translate? Does the virus act differently with kids in Europe than here? Last time I checked we have same virus as them. There's no cure or preventive in Europe either. Social distancing impossible in a school? Sweden just spread the desks out, not using masks, kids are trained to wash hands frequently. No problems!
Coronavirus study finds schools are safe for teachers and students
A study of the NSW school students and staff who have tested positive for COVID-19 found an "extraordinarily" low rate of transmission in schools.
"Our investigation found no evidence of children infecting teachers," the chief investigator Professor Kristine Macartney told The Sun-Herald.
"We have seen an extraordinarily low rate of transmissions in schools," Prof Macartney said.
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