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<blockquote data-quote="NicoleC1971" data-source="post: 2299113" data-attributes="member: 365308"><p>On the question of risk of getting infected by the kids (note that diabetics are not more likely to become infected but are more likely if infected to have worse outcomes):</p><p>Some more evidence about child to adult transmission in school setting. Note that this is June and many EU schools were open again from May:</p><p><a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-schools-transmission-August%202020.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-schools-transmission-August 2020.pdf</a></p><p><strong>What is the evidence of transmission from children (students) to adults (teacher/staff) within the school setting? In an Irish study, 101 adult contacts in the school setting of three SARS-CoV-2 positive children resulted in no additional cases [84]. It is important to note that this study did not consider asymptomatic infections. In Australia, a contact tracing study in 15 primary and high schools where nine student COVID-19 cases were detected found no evidence of any transmission to 128 adult close contacts in the school setting [86]. In the Netherlands, as of June 2020, there had been no reports of possible COVID-19 clusters linked to schools or reports of employees infected by children [81]. In summary, where COVID-19 in children was detected and contacts followed-up, no adult contacts in the school setting have been detected as SARS-CoV-2 positive during the follow-up period. The conclusion from these investigations is that children are not the primary drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to adults in the school setting.</strong></p><p>Glutathione becomes depleted with age and as it is a key antioxidant and part of the immune system. Other than supplements and an intravenous drip I am not sure how it can be topped up in the elderly?</p><p></p><p>As you say or infer, you are more at risk on a bus or train or in the staff rom/at parents' evenings but if a working age teacher with diabetes were to get covid 19 then his or her risk of dying or getting ill is still small (look at the numbers as proportion of the overall diabetic population). This is a UK survey and we know death rates peaked before the lock down could have had any effect (April 8th) so this is a reflection of our partial measures taken in Feb and March when infection rates were likely highest and the schools were fully open: Note how steeply risk increases for all diabetics with age.</p><p><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/action/showFullTableHTML?isHtml=true&tableId=tbl2&pii=S2213-8587%2820%2930272-2" target="_blank">https://www.thelancet.com/action/showFullTableHTML?isHtml=true&tableId=tbl2&pii=S2213-8587(20)30272-2</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NicoleC1971, post: 2299113, member: 365308"] On the question of risk of getting infected by the kids (note that diabetics are not more likely to become infected but are more likely if infected to have worse outcomes): Some more evidence about child to adult transmission in school setting. Note that this is June and many EU schools were open again from May: [URL]https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-schools-transmission-August%202020.pdf[/URL] [B]What is the evidence of transmission from children (students) to adults (teacher/staff) within the school setting? In an Irish study, 101 adult contacts in the school setting of three SARS-CoV-2 positive children resulted in no additional cases [84]. It is important to note that this study did not consider asymptomatic infections. In Australia, a contact tracing study in 15 primary and high schools where nine student COVID-19 cases were detected found no evidence of any transmission to 128 adult close contacts in the school setting [86]. In the Netherlands, as of June 2020, there had been no reports of possible COVID-19 clusters linked to schools or reports of employees infected by children [81]. In summary, where COVID-19 in children was detected and contacts followed-up, no adult contacts in the school setting have been detected as SARS-CoV-2 positive during the follow-up period. The conclusion from these investigations is that children are not the primary drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to adults in the school setting.[/B] Glutathione becomes depleted with age and as it is a key antioxidant and part of the immune system. Other than supplements and an intravenous drip I am not sure how it can be topped up in the elderly? As you say or infer, you are more at risk on a bus or train or in the staff rom/at parents' evenings but if a working age teacher with diabetes were to get covid 19 then his or her risk of dying or getting ill is still small (look at the numbers as proportion of the overall diabetic population). This is a UK survey and we know death rates peaked before the lock down could have had any effect (April 8th) so this is a reflection of our partial measures taken in Feb and March when infection rates were likely highest and the schools were fully open: Note how steeply risk increases for all diabetics with age. [URL]https://www.thelancet.com/action/showFullTableHTML?isHtml=true&tableId=tbl2&pii=S2213-8587%2820%2930272-2[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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