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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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 …
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 …
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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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As an MD you obviously know that children can spread respiratory viruses. So, I do not understand why you are asking the 2nd question. During a pandemic, it is important not to generate misunderstandings/misinformation.
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Might want to factor all data in. Here is morbidity rate. Sweden doesn’t shine (higher than US) and infection rate is highest among Scandinavians (+ Swiss & UK for comp). They admit that initial herd immunity assumptions were inaccurate. There is no unifying solution to this.pic.twitter.com/WACmSDH3ux
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Hi James. Thanks for commenting. Since many cases are only mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic, the rate of deaths/known cases is to a large extent driven by how much testing is done in different countries. Hence, not a very useful metric.
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