Really nice discussion of children, schools, and community transmission https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/21352597/covid-19-children-infection-transmission-new-studies …pic.twitter.com/9pTWzd4NzM
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I’m not worried about the kids. I’m worried about the teachers and parents and grandparents. South Korea controlled the outbreak with testing and tracing, how’s that working in the US? Comparing US to other countries is not helpful
Important considerations. Again, best evidence from Sweden. With schools open, compared to other professions, the #COVID19 RR was 0.9 (95% CI 0.7-1.1) for day-care and 1.1 (95% CI 0.9-1.3) for primary school teachers. Sample size 260K. 1/2 https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/c1b78bffbfde4a7899eb0d8ffdb57b09/covid-19-school-aged-children.pdf …
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Not the right comparison. What’s the teacher risk and community risk in Sweden when schools open compared to risk in Sweden when schools closed? See:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769034 …
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In Sweden, day-care/primary schools never closed, except for regular holidays and vacations. Such temporal comparisons are scientifically fraught though, due to other changes occurring at the same time (as in Israel) and natural changes in incidence and immunity.
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With open schools in Stockholm, high-risk elderly age >70 that live with a working-age adult had the same
#COVID19 risk whether or not they also lived with children age <16. 2/2 https://su.figshare.com/articles/preprint/Residential_Context_and_COVID-19_Mortality_among_the_Elderly_in_Stockholm_A_population-based_observational_study/12612947/1 … -
What’s your epi interpretation of this data? Kids don’t spread respiratory viruses? Not a hill I’d want to die on. Seems everyone is desperate for your conclusion though.
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