The whole truth about kids, schools, and COVID https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/just-open-schools-already/617849/ … A year ago, we had many reasons to think young kids would be most at risk in a respiratory pandemic. Months of data show something close to the opposite. The question is what we do with that information.
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Agree. One of the things that makes it difficult to be confident in these studies is that all of the biases would lead to an underestimate of cases transmitted in schools. Routine asymptomatic testing & genetic sequencing could help clear a lot of this up.
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Yes, exactly! If kids are less likely to experience symptoms (almost certainly true), and we only test those with symptoms (often the case), then it's pretty much inevitable that we'd underestimate the true number of infections in the age group
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Could we at least agree the doomsday scenario is off the books?
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I think that the current evidence is consistent with a situation where schools are one of the prominent drivers of transmission and one where they are not risky at all - that's the problem
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