BREAKING: Children have at least as much virus in their nose and throat as adults do—and kids younger than 5 may have up to 100 times as much. This doesn’t *prove* that they transmit the virus, of course, but it’s suggestive.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/health/coronavirus-children.html …
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I’m not disagreeing that most kids are asymptomatic. I’m disagreeing that the virus somehow behaves completely differently in them. There are loads of asymptomatic adults, too. clear increase with age in severity doesn’t have to mean kids go a “different direction” than adults
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So what I’m saying is virus may infect/transmit no difffently overall at any age. Whether someone shows symptoms or how much may just depend on age, general health, co-morbidities, immune status etc. —as with most other viruses.
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The puzzle isn’t solved, but showing symptomatic kids, whose rarity is the question at hand, resemble adults isn’t solving the puzzle. Nice to have but we already had a German study showing that. We need studies on all children, hopefully.
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Can someone please explain to me how it is that teachers in Sweden weren’t infected at higher rates than other professions? It’s telling that people like Apoorva just don’t mention this paper. https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/c1b78bffbfde4a7899eb0d8ffdb57b09/covid-19-school-aged-children.pdf …
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You have cited a review that focuses on reasons for reopening, none of which are based on virology, knowledge of pandemics, or the assertion that it may actually not be possible or sensible for us to open up schools because the pandemic train has left the station.
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I’m not taking a position on the reopening. Just saying there’s something happening with age.
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