In mid-July, a large study out of South Korea seemed to suggest that children over the age of 10 spread coronavirus even more than adults do; this update to the same study clarifies otherwise:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/health/older-children-and-the-coronavirus-a-new-wrinkle-in-the-debate.html …
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Especially terrible since the issue was obvious the moment it came out, even without the further information that has since come out.
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Original article; almost 400,000 shares on Facebook alone. Correction? Not even a thousand shares, yet. It wasn't just the NYT, and how many will not even correct? I don't know how many kids are denied safe schooling and parents now overly-anxious because of the rushed reporting.pic.twitter.com/PCjkxM99Vv
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Didn’t info about the importance of ventilation become widely discussed around the same time? Or maybe slightly later. But the ventilation issue is one of the biggest concerns among NYC public schools, at least from what I’ve read.
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Dunno. I heard so many parents raise that study. I literally heard it from a scared kid "I heard 10 year-olds transmit more than adults" I swear. But I wrote this because ventilation wasn't being discussed. NYC has very low community transmission rate atm.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/ …
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True. There are sadly many similar examples. We need to keep reminding the media as well as scientists! that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions looking at a single study, we should make decisions based on what emerges as a consensus.https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1291422895458193413?s=21 …
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And if we could get the media to actually acknowledge sample size as it pertains to some of these studies... So many sensational headlines (and subsequent decisions) being based on studies with tiny sample sizes and no mention of that fact whatsoever.
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The study was what it was...I don't blame the scientists for publishing what turned out to be a flawed study: even the original it was clear there were problems. Primary blame very much the media, and NYT in particular for lionising a study since it agreed with priors.
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The article reached almost no one. Don’t kid yourself; more people believe kids don’t spread the disease than read one article from the Times. Even I missed it and i read most everything. I would have dismissed it bc of sm sample size.
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