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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2285917" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Surely you are not serious?</p><p>Children are plague vectors, and classrooms are petri dishes.</p><p>Having worked in open plan offices for years, I have seen virus after virus sweep through the places, all originating from the parent of a child ‘who brought it home from school’.</p><p></p><p>I’ve seen plenty of info claiming that children get mild or no symptoms of Covid-19 (except the tiny minority who get very ill indeed, and may die, including those with Kawasaki Syndrome). But I have seen no evidence at all that they can’t/won’t pass the novel coronavirus on to their classmates, siblings, parents and grandparents. If that evidence exists, I would love to see it, but doubt I ever will, since it is impossible to prove a negative.</p><p></p><p>I’ve seen claims that children have lower rates of positive antibody tests, but that is no indication. T cells could be stepping in instead.</p><p>And I've seen claims that without covid symptoms, children are less infectious. Tell that to the well documented asymptomatic superspreaders.</p><p></p><p>There actually seems to be a significant lack of anything conclusive regarding covid and children. Contradictory Chinese studies from Feb and March, a few studies of hospitalised children. I couldn’t find anything detailing rates of spread from children. No one seems to have studied that. They all seem to just quote inconclusive studies from earlier in the year, and then make cagey statements. It is certainly easy to say ‘there is no evidence that children spread it’ when no one is studying it.</p><p></p><p>different parts of the world contradict each other over almost every aspect</p><p><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/18/how-likely-are-kids-to-get-covid-19-scientists-see-a-huge-puzzle-without-easy-answers/" target="_blank">https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/18/how-likely-are-kids-to-get-covid-19-scientists-see-a-huge-puzzle-without-easy-answers/</a></p><p></p><p>In the meantime, I will cheerfully settle for any evidence that this new coronavirus behaves fundamentally differently from all the other coronaviruses that sweep through schools, pupils, and their families every year. Haven’t seen it yet.</p><p></p><p>I did find this an interesting read, which suggests that the risk is more about prevalence of virus in the general pop than whether children don’t spread it. Which is kind of common sense.</p><p><a href="https://sciencenordic.com/denmark-epidemic-health/coronavirus-schoolchildren-and-parents-emerge-unscathed-from-being-guinea-pigs/1698181" target="_blank">https://sciencenordic.com/denmark-epidemic-health/coronavirus-schoolchildren-and-parents-emerge-unscathed-from-being-guinea-pigs/1698181</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2285917, member: 41816"] Surely you are not serious? Children are plague vectors, and classrooms are petri dishes. Having worked in open plan offices for years, I have seen virus after virus sweep through the places, all originating from the parent of a child ‘who brought it home from school’. I’ve seen plenty of info claiming that children get mild or no symptoms of Covid-19 (except the tiny minority who get very ill indeed, and may die, including those with Kawasaki Syndrome). But I have seen no evidence at all that they can’t/won’t pass the novel coronavirus on to their classmates, siblings, parents and grandparents. If that evidence exists, I would love to see it, but doubt I ever will, since it is impossible to prove a negative. I’ve seen claims that children have lower rates of positive antibody tests, but that is no indication. T cells could be stepping in instead. And I've seen claims that without covid symptoms, children are less infectious. Tell that to the well documented asymptomatic superspreaders. There actually seems to be a significant lack of anything conclusive regarding covid and children. Contradictory Chinese studies from Feb and March, a few studies of hospitalised children. I couldn’t find anything detailing rates of spread from children. No one seems to have studied that. They all seem to just quote inconclusive studies from earlier in the year, and then make cagey statements. It is certainly easy to say ‘there is no evidence that children spread it’ when no one is studying it. different parts of the world contradict each other over almost every aspect [URL]https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/18/how-likely-are-kids-to-get-covid-19-scientists-see-a-huge-puzzle-without-easy-answers/[/URL] In the meantime, I will cheerfully settle for any evidence that this new coronavirus behaves fundamentally differently from all the other coronaviruses that sweep through schools, pupils, and their families every year. Haven’t seen it yet. I did find this an interesting read, which suggests that the risk is more about prevalence of virus in the general pop than whether children don’t spread it. Which is kind of common sense. [URL]https://sciencenordic.com/denmark-epidemic-health/coronavirus-schoolchildren-and-parents-emerge-unscathed-from-being-guinea-pigs/1698181[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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