COVID-19: Chapter 7 - Brags, Beats, and Variants

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@Danspartan

This is essentially “my” (OFS) containment thread…

The Raid (on Rebekah Jones's home)

Regarding transmission in children, I might be ponied here as this is a few weeks old, but the gold standard now is an Iceland study, in fact check out National Geographic’s headline: The study found that children (defined by them as 15 and younger) transmit the virus half as effectively as adults. The study was very well controlled: The best way to understand how transmission might occur between children and adults would be to constantly monitor healthy families with school-age children to…

@spidercrab

From my looking around, I don’t see that evidence. I see things like:

• A CDC report that shows no association between a positive COVID tests and attending in-person school or child care. This is in contrast to social gatherings or at-home visitors, which were associated with positive COVID tests.
• A large-scale study of COVID transmission in child-care programs (in the journal Pediatrics ). . This study “found no evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID-19 transmission to adults. This finding is consistent with previous studies showing a lack of association between school closures and transmission rates.” [It doesn’t look at transmission from adults to children or children to children, and cautions that the level of background transmission may be a threat to child care.]