Tuesday, December 22, 2020

UMC Study: Schools are Safer for Kids

 UMC issued the following press release and study.

 Children are more at risk from contracting COVID-19 at a holiday party or family gathering than they are from being in the classroom or in childcare. 

 

That’s according to a study led by University of Mississippi Medical Center experts in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was featured in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbity and Mortality Weekly Report, the agency’s primary publication for scientific public health information and recommendations. 

 

Dr. Charlotte Hobbs, professor of pediatric infectious diseases at UMMC, is lead author on the study’s findings. Co-authors include experts from the University of Mississippi School of Nursing and Mississippi State Department of Health. 

 

Our main findings were that in-person childcare or school attendance in the two weeks preceding the test for COVID-19 was not associated with being infected,” Hobbs said. “Also, children who were infected were more likely to have had close contact with someone with COVID-19 and that contact was most commonly a family member, so household contacts versus a contact at school appeared to be more important in a child's risk for being infected.” 

 

Hobbs noted that parents or guardians of children who were infected were less likely to report wearing masks at these gatherings than faculty and staff in a school or childcare setting. 

 

The study, Factors Associated with Positive SARS-CoV-2 Test Results in Outpatient Health Facilities and Emergency Departments Among Children and Adolescents Aged <18 Years — Mississippi, September–November 2020, showed that, compared with children who tested negative, children who tested positive were also more likely to have attended gatherings and have visitors at home. Hobbs noted that parents or guardians of children who were infected were less likely to report wearing masks at these gatherings.  

 

“Continued strict implementation of measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission in schools is vital, along with continued adherence to local Department of Health and CDC guidelines on an individual and family level,” Hobbs said. “For example, even though parents and guardians reported good adherence to MSDH/CDC recommendations for reducing risks at schools, mask use at schools was lower among infected children than the uninfected children, suggesting that consistent mask use at schools is still very important.” 

 

The study comes a week after President-elect Joe Biden pledged to bring the pandemic under enough control so that most of the nation’s schools could be opened during his first 100 days as president. It also comes as a warning to parents and families as Christmas and New Year’s Day near. 

 

State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers, who contributed to the research study, said the report “highlights the known risks of COVID-19 exposure associated with social gatherings where individuals are letting their guard down; a situation we have seen played out time and time again.” 

 

The report also emphasizes the importance of consistent mask use in all settings, he said, “from structured environments such as classroom settings, to those higher-risk out-of-school social activities when folks have a tendency to be less vigilant.” 

   

As the holidays approach, Byers said, “It is imperative that we arm parents and families with the information needed to prevent infection in themselves and their children. We have to apply the same level of consistency across the board in all public settings, and now is time to really limit social interactions outside of the nuclear family.” 

 

Even though COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available, now is not the time for parents, families and schools and childcare centers to let down their guard, Hobbs said. “And we need to remember that the available vaccine is only approved for those 16 and older.” 

 

“Wear your mask, social distance, even in your own household if you’re sick or infected or even exposed,” she said. “Also, everyone needs to keep their guard up whenever around people who don’t live with you. It's easy to forget this, especially as one relaxes in social gatherings with friends or family outside the house, and especially with the holidays coming. For our children and their parents or guardians, we need to maintain vigilance on all levels. Protecting our kids from getting infected is important for keeping schools and daycares open in Mississippi. We all know the vital nature of school for our children developmentally, academically and socially.” 

 

 

 

 

Kingfish note: Not. Going.To.Say.It. 

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

But all the anonymous experts here at JJ say it isn't safe. UMC can't be right.

Anonymous said...

The study seems to state the obvious. And, whether or not children became infected and brought it home is not the concern.

What this study says is that children get infected from stupid family members.

Anonymous said...

Keep the schools closed.

FU,

Team Chaos

Anonymous said...

My anonymous, expert takeaway from this. Having a structured environment where everyone must maintain social distancing and mask wearing is universal and compulsory is relatively safe. We could certainly stretch that across every facet of our lives and would probably have COVID well under control now.

The problem is with the covidiots who think wearing a mask is akin to torture by Dr. Mengele and an affront to their liberty like Mao Zedong's reeducation camps. It is people like that that are spreading COVID among the population. Continuing to have large in-person gatherings, going to a packed church and singing loudly, and generally making a menace of themselves to society as a whole.

A little common sense would have gone a long way to preventing a large part of the 300,000+ deaths. Too bad we live in a country with such a high percentage of ignoramuses.

Anonymous said...

The teachers union hate this finding-

Dr. Thomas Dobbs said...

Trump was right about schools all along. That man surely is a genius

Anonymous said...

@1:43pm - Well said.

Anonymous said...

Every study has shown that. Yet Democrats still want schools shut down. Probably pushed by the teachers unions.

Anonymous said...

I don't get folks who are mad at others for enjoying life in a manner they are comfortable with.

Stay out of public places if you are scared of encountering a Covidiot.

I have not been to church, or unnecessary large family gatherings and I have not gotten sick.
See how that works? The key word is "I".

I am responsible for MY health.

Instead of ranting and blaming and being mad at folks in public not wearing a mask (which I rarely encounter for the record), why don't YOU take your own health into your own hands and avoid all these places and let all the menaces to society kill themselves off?

That should make you happy?

Seems like the world has become a bunch on angry volunteer neighborhood watch members.

Anonymous said...

... and generally making a menace of themselves to society as a whole.

Damn right. I'm your menace and you'll be first.

Anonymous said...

Common sense findings

Anonymous said...

With the quality of education (or lack thereof) in schools today, I’m not sad the schools are closed

Anonymous said...

The education of children is not a secondary concern. It is absolutely primary. If you can go to Wal Mart or the post office, your kids have got to be able to go to school. It's damn essential. Even for kids in Jackson, though JPS thinks it is not.


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