Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Swiss Reopen Schools

Swiss experts: Children are poor vectors of Covid-19. 

Swiss children are going back to school.  The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation reported last week:





Au début de l'épidémie, on a pensé que les enfants pourraient en fait être des porteurs asymptomatiques de la maladie... Mais Daniel Koch, le responsable de la cellule de crise de l'OFSP, a dit vendredi en conférence de presse que, d'après les premiers tests sérologiques – ceux qui cherchent des traces d'anticorps – cela ne semble pas être le cas.

Mais il faut être prudent, dans les circonstances actuelles, car il n'existe pour l'heure pas d'étude à large échelle, validée par les canaux usuels: Daniel Koch dit se baser sur le retour des pédiatres et infectiologues sur le terrain.

La plupart des enfants infectés sont peu malades: sur les 3200 personnes hospitalisées en ce moment en Suisse, seules dix-huit ont moins de dix ans. Et alors que la Suisse enregistre environ 1300 décès, il n'y en a eu aucun dans cette tranche d'âge.

Toutefois, il y en a eu ailleurs dans le monde: un en Italie et un en France, notamment, mais le nombre reste bas.
Ce seraient les adultes qui infectent les enfants

Aux dires de certains virologues, il semble que même lorsque les enfants sont testés positifs au virus, leur charge virale, c'est-à-dire grosso modo le nombre de virus qui circulent dans leur corps, soit souvent très faible.

Ce qui expliquerait pourquoi ils sont – toujours d'après Daniel Koch – des mauvais vecteurs de la maladie. Il semble que ce sont les adultes qui infectent les enfants, et non le contraire.

Avec l'âge, les chiffres changent, mais restent bas chez les adolescents: il y a eu 700 cas diagnostiqués en tout chez les 10-19 ans avec toujours peu d'hospitalisations et aucun décès. reste de l'article

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The only kids I know that attend school in Switzerland are the 2 kids a few houses down from me in northeast Jackson. The American school in Switzerland boarding school.

Pepe LePeu said...

I think they misspelled several words in the article.

Anonymous said...

they have year-round schools. if our schools didnt end in may, we'd be looking at going back in a few weeks too...

it's time to reopen-and tate knows this and is doing it..-we know a lot more about this now than we did in january, and treatments are around the corner (and are basically two months away from wide distribution--and we dont need that in the summer as much as we did in april..) a vaccine will be developed somewhere..and there are worldwide trials.

the first to the market with a good product will win the covid-19 windfall...

Anonymous said...

I'd like to see the research that concludes adults infect children and children don't infect adults.

Even so, teachers are adults , are they not?

The article states one thing we already seem to know...that the virus shows up rarely in those under age 10. It begs the question, however, whether the symptoms in those under age 10 are so mild that they do not get tested. And, just a thought is that they can't shed at the same distances or heights as an adult.


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