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I agree but then I'd say it was wrong to have them self isolating in the first place based on a) unreliable test b) only the tiniest proportion of them testing positive during isolation periods suggesting that it was adults passing it to kids or adults passing it to their colleagues in the staff room. Surely we can protect the small number of truly vulnerable teachers just as we might have done in prior flu seasons when they were a lot more vulnerable to catching that flu from the kids particularly if the flu vaccine happened not to work that year?More ill, maybe not. But how do you keep schools open with teachers and pupils at home self isolating?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30251-0/fulltextThe data hasn't been published but it follows if the highest infection rates in society are at school, then teachers are getting more ill than other front line workers. They certainly are not wanting to publish the numbers. I think Germany closing its schools shows it's more concerned about its citizens than populist ideas our Government has about not closing schools at all costs.
https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-tell-us-how-many-teachers-have-died
https://www.tes.com/news/gibb-not-possible-know-teacher-covid-case-numbers
https://neu.org.uk/press-releases/c...n-rates-highest-amongst-secondary-aged-pupils
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/german-school-close-coronavirus-lockdown.html
This is an actual study based on Australia in Winter but obviously we've had schools open in Sweden (all the way through and in mainland Europe since May I think) with no mention of rampant illness. High infection rates reflect high levels of testing in the Winter upper respiratory season but the demographic is young (of working age) and healthy. The group we know is least likely to get ill from this let alone seriously ill.
If care home workers or nurses on geriatric wards or workers on cruise ships had high levels of infection then your point that infections are always problematic, would make sense.