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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Replying to @DKThomp
There are quite a few issues in this piece. One in particular is that many of the criticisms you raise about studies that are against the main point of the article also apply to all the studies you cite as evidence, but this is not mentioned at all
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I mean, the North Carolina study that you cite as evidence is definitely open to a number of these potential biases - if nothing else the contact tracing is poorly defined - but in the piece it is represented as solid evidencepic.twitter.com/XstzZARrxU
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Replying to @GidMK
I think that's a fair point, and I could have paused to point out that, despite the mounting evidence of lower transmission risk for younger children, some of the papers I mentioned might be subject to the criticisms i levied at the SK/Jerusalem studies ...
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but while the Duke study, or the Norway study, or the Sweden study might have shared or individual flaws, the main takeaway of the article, which I believe is supportable, is that the preponderance of evidence now points in a clear direction https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/evidence-summary-paediatric-covid-19-literature/ …
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Replying to @DKThomp
I don't think that's really true. I know that there are very strong opinions on both sides, but I suspect that you could write the exact same article arguing the opposite position and have just as many studies to back up your points
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Replying to @GidMK
can you point me to the highest quality sources for that claim? what I've read in Science, JAMA, and Alasdair Munro's compilation argues rather forcefully for the lower transmission rate of young children https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6514/286 … https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2771180 … https://jamanetwork.com/searchresults?author=Alasdair+P.+S.+Munro&q=Alasdair+P.+S.+Munro …
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Replying to @DKThomp
Health Nerd Retweeted Dr Zoë Hyde
@DrZoeHyde has been compiling quite a bit of this evidence i.e.https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1336612124835995648?s=19 …Health Nerd added,
Dr Zoë Hyde @DrZoeHyde1. Updated thread on children &#COVID19, summarising recent research. Summary: further evidence children and adults are equally susceptible, and similarly likely to transmit. Schools have been a driver of the second wave in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere.#edutwitter#auspolShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
My pleasure! I think it's a difficult topic to cover tbh, the science is extremely challenging to interpet and I really don't think that there is one clear answer based on my own reading
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