The CDC reported minority parents were less likely to favor sending their children back to school than white parents during the Covid-19 pandemic. A CDC survey reports 62% of white parents but only 46% of black parents and 50% of hispanic parents though schools should have reopened last fall. The report states:
In light of the disproportionate risk of hospitalization and death attributable to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among racial and ethnic minority groups, parental attitudes and concerns regarding school reopening were assessed by race and ethnicity using data from three online CARAVAN omnibus surveys conducted during July 8–12, 2020, by ENGINE Insights.* Survey participants included 858 parents who had children and adolescents in kindergarten through grade 12 (school-aged children) living in their household. Overall, 56.5% of parents strongly or somewhat agreed that school should reopen this fall, with some differences by race/ethnicity: compared with 62.3% of non-Hispanic White (White) parents, 46.0% of non-Hispanic Black or African American (Black) parents (p = 0.007) and 50.2% of Hispanic parents (p = 0.014) agreed that school should reopen this fall. Fewer White parents (62.5%) than Hispanic (79.5%, p = 0.026) and non-Hispanic parents of other racial/ethnic groups (66.9%, p = 0.041) were supportive of a mask mandate for students and staff members. Understanding parental attitudes and concerns is critical to informing communication and messaging around COVID-19 mitigation. Families’ concerns also highlight the need for flexible education plans and equitable resource provision so that youth education is not compromised.
Sustained physical proximity and high contact between children and adolescents attending school might increase risk for infection and community and intrahousehold spread of COVID-19, which is associated with worse outcomes for racial and ethnic minority groups (1–3). Compared with White persons, non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, non-Hispanic Asian (Asian), and Hispanic persons experience higher COVID-19 incidence, related hospitalizations, and death.† As an important component of community infrastructure, in addition to education, schools provide critical services that help mitigate health disparities, including school meal programs and social, physical, behavioral, and mental health services. COVID-19–related school closures disrupt the delivery of critical services to school-aged children and families and might exacerbate the inequalities faced by racial and ethnic minority families (4–6). To inform communication and behavior change strategies aimed at COVID-19 mitigation in school settings and to help school districts respond to families’ needs, parental attitudes and concerns about school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic were assessed.
Data from three online CARAVAN omnibus national surveys conducted among U.S. adults aged ≥18 years during July 8–12 by ENGINE Insights were analyzed. Each survey included approximately 1,000 adults. Quota sampling was conducted by ENGINE Insights to select respondents, and statistical weighting was used during analysis to match the 2019 edition of the Current Population Survey proportions, so the sample represented the U.S. population by sex, age, region, race/ethnicity, and education.§ Participants came from the Lucid Marketplace (https://luc.id/quality/external icon) and could opt-in to supplier panels. Incentives were typically offered as points, which could be redeemed for gift cards or prizes. Respondents were eligible if they had not participated in the previous 20 survey administration waves. Respondents were informed that their answers were being used for market research and that they could refuse to answer any question. Data quality filters in the survey prevent multiple responses from the same person or household and improve response completeness. The survey was only administered in English. This activity was reviewed by CDC and was conducted consistent with applicable federal law and CDC policy.
Compared with White parents, 62.3% of whom strongly or somewhat agreed that schools should reopen in-person for all students in the fall, a smaller percentage of Black (46.0%, p = 0.007) and Hispanic parents (50.2%, p = 0.014) agreed (Table 2). When asked about schooling preferences until a COVID-19 vaccine is available, 82.4% of Hispanic parents strongly or somewhat agreed that they would prefer to homeschool their children until a vaccine is available, compared with 69.8% of White parents (p = 0.006) and 64.7% of parents of other racial/ethnic groups (p = 0.012). Whereas two thirds (67.6%) of White parents agreed that the overall experience of being in school is more important for students, despite ongoing COVID-19 concerns, significantly fewer Hispanic parents (53.9%, p = 0.005) and parents of other racial/ethnic groups (53.4%, p = 0.044) felt this way. Reported concern about students complying with mitigation was significantly higher among parents of other racial/ethnic groups (96.9%) compared with White parents (85.2%, p = 0.025) and Hispanic parents (80.6%, p = 0.009). Similarly, a higher percentage of Black parents (91.9%) were concerned about mitigation compliance than were Hispanic parents (80.6%, p = 0.019)....
The findings in this report are subject to at least six limitations. First, data were self-reported; therefore, responses might be subject to social desirability bias. Second, although survey responses were weighted to be nationally representative of U.S. demographics, whether responses among this incentivized, opt-in panel sample are truly representative of attitudes and concerns shared by the broader U.S. population or what biases might have occurred is not known. Third, responses were recorded at a single point in time and might not reflect shifts in parental attitudes and concerns about school opening in light of varying community transmission rates and learning options. Fourth, because some families might have more than one child, these questions might have been difficult to answer if concern varied by the child’s age and school environment. Fifth, the sample could be biased because the survey was only administered in English. Finally, because of sample size, this study did not adjust for other factors, such as socioeconomic status, urbanicity, or geographic region, which might also affect parental attitudes and concerns... Report.
Such findings are concerning because it is minority children suffer the most by not attending school in person. 131 children in Mississippi have been hospitalized since the pandemic began while only two have died. Consider the following stats for Mississippi:
131 child hospitalizations (1.7% of all hospitalizations)
2 deaths under 18 years old (0.04% of all deaths)
12% of all cases.
0.5% of all child cases result in hospitalization.
Meanwhile, overseas schools remain open.
20 comments:
Everyone knows the kids are fine going to school, if all you care about are the kids. The kids are carriers, and they will spread it to teachers, administrators, and parents. Parents then spread it to their coworkers and other family members. Huge snowball effect, which eventually makes it in our nursing homes and grandparents’ homes. It’s not “just about the kids.” The kids will be alright, it’s everyone else that becomes infected because of super-spreader schools being open that may not be.
I’m white and have school age kids. And I’m disgusted by the sheer magnitude of the selfishness, the lack of care or empathy for anyone else, and the idiotic belief in conspiracy theories by my “peers.”
School being open is fine as long as masks are strictly enforced, and kids aren’t exposed to stupid shit at home. But alas, it’s the dumbass parents having huge get togethers outside of school with no safeguards in place, creating super spreader events and infecting the kids, who then go back to school. Masks are useful, but when half the class is already infected from these dumbass events outside of school, no amount of masking will prevent the other half from getting a huge dose of Covid.
Keep on living your best life though. Don’t let Covid rain on your parade. Chances are it will have no effect on you, so who cares right?
Take a breath 2:59. Life will go on regardless. Christ sakes.
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Geez you people. Unrealistic. You take about empathy but you are very willing to sacrifice one persons life to save what’s left in another as long as it meets your virtue signaling qualifications. How about you except that maybe there isn’t a clear answer. That life is finite. That your still on a rock traveling 30 KM/S around a ball of gas. Sometimes you need to sail through the storm.
Screw you. The rate in New York schools for example, is half of what it is for the general population in that city. Hence the kids are actually safer at school where the infection rates are lower.
Kingfish: That is a real dumb analogy and conclusion without basis, off the wall and totally unsound. It's like saying "Kids are much safer swimming in the deep end of the pool than they would be riding on the back of a drag-line". Hugh?
Didn’t take the “don’t care” crowd long to show up. Including Kingfish.
Done properly schools can be relatively safe. Kids can sit at their desks, wear masks, and have the teacher maintain a safe distance in the front of the classroom. Limited recess and lunch served in the classroom.
Sports and extracurricular activities need to be postponed though. COVID does spread in such close contact, in the locker rooms, and among the fans in the stands.
You have to evaluate the risk versus the damage done. Instruction is worth it, play time is not.
This too funny.
Covid Vaccines have been fast tracked, and now the media is crowing about a very small number of reactions ?
100 million people were successfully tested, but a nurse in Australia, a goat farmer in Romania, and a homeless woman in the fondren got a rash on an elbow.
But then again, we've been brainwashed watching pharmaceutical commercials.
(Kind of like when a new headache medicine is developed).
Only the first 65 seconds of the commercial will discuss the benefits of said new drug.
Then we have to listen to five minutes of "possible" side affects .
"Butt Cancer, Erectile Dysfunction, Suicidal Thoughts" . . . and Gawd knows what else.
Actually, I guess we can blame the trial lawyers for such .
Didn’t take the “don’t care” crowd long to show up.
Didn't take the binary thinkers long to complain.
People act as if black people fear and skepticism of vaccines, medical trials and clinical testing is somehow misplaced, unfounded and based on ignorance. Quite the opposite is true if you just examine American history. They should be skeptical.
Leave it to the CDC to raise the race card.
Get Woke, Dude! Binary is the new buzz word of the day. The rest of you still usin' Snap, Core Competencies and Far Out.
@6:16 AM - Indeed, and many are still using the very dated "at the end of the day" and "the bottom line is..."
10:18 I will agree based on the way things were handled 50 years ago Black people could be skeptical of the medical profession. However, in today's connected world where every action that affects Blacks disproportionately is immediately labeled as "systemic racism" and put on millions of Facebook conspiracy pages there is no way for Blacks to be used as test subjects.
That's a huge problem with race relations today. Lynchings, beatings, and segregation that happened before 1970 are still looked at as common among the Blacks. It just isn't so. Black suspicion of the COVID-19 vaccine based on a fear it is designed to hurt Blacks is misplaced.
I wonder about the demographics (single vs dual parent household, income per household, total household #, etc) breakdown of these percentages.
A study published that answers the question of asymptomatic spread. 0 cases out of 10 million studied.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
If you're sick, stay home. Everyone else is free to move about the cabin.
9:00, if only it were that simple. Since the 1970's most minorities are going to remain skeptical about white doctors and nurses, because of the history of "mail-it-in" attitudes that some take towards minorities due to their prejudices. A lot of Americans are skeptical of big pharma, especially since the opioid crisis.
The great susceptibility to Covid of Black people is due to the higher incidence rate of obesity and diabetes.
Our hospitals are full of black doctors and black nurses today, the old feelings of racism in medical treatment should be gone. Biggest problem is that Democrats and media keep telling Black people that they are hated and discrimated against so that they vote fir Democrats.
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