Key finding: Kids don't transmit virus to adults in schools
The American Academy of Pediatrics reports transmission of the Covid-19 virus rarely occurred in North Carolina schools. The peer-reviewed study was conducted by researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. Some highlights of the study are:
*Hypothesis: in-person instruction, if accompanied by assiduous adherence to masking, distancing, and hand hygiene,
would not result in substantial risk of SARS-CoV-2 spread within schools for children or staff.
* 90,000 students studied in 11 school districts that provided instruction for at least nine weeks. 773 Covid-19 infections occurred in this population. Contact tracing determined another 32 infections "were acquired within schools."
* "No instances of child-to-adult transmission of SARS-CoV-2 were reported within schools."
* Students were required to mask up, use social spacing, and wash hands.
* Overall rate for state during period studied was 1-2 cases per 100,000 residents although it was slightly higher in the counties that had the school districts studied.
* 773 Covid-19 infections but only 32 cases of secondary transmission.
* You want raw data? Here is some raw data:
6 Districts: 0 secondary infections
2 Districts: 1 secondary infection
3 districts: Multiple secondary infections
Pre-K: 6 cases of secondary infection
Elementary school: 11 secondary infections
Middle schools: 6 secondary infections
High schools: 5 secondary infections
K-12 schools: 4 secondary infections.
Child to adult within school transmission: ZERO
* 2 clusters occurred in special needs environment. One involved children eating together in close proximity.
The key finding is:
On average, NC residents with SARS-CoV-2 infected slightly more than 1 other individual during these 9 weeks.¹² If secondary transmission were as common in schools as in the community, we would anticipate 800–900 secondary infections within schools; however, only 32 within-school SARS-CoV-2 transmissions occurred.
This finding is similar to New York City where the rates of Covid-19 infections were double what they are in the public schools. It is also interesting that North Carolina private schools had more clusters than all public schools. (p.14). Most of the secondary transmissions occurred among special needs children and kids lacking face coverings.
Bottom line: Schools are safe harbors for kids even during widespread community transmission of Covid-19.
Kingfish note: More evidence the kids should be back in school. Got that, Canton? If Little Lord Lumumba wants to cut down on the infection of kids, he should urge JPS to reopen the schools in full.
14 comments:
key words: assiduous adherence to masking, distancing, and hand hygiene
actually, we could just about have this whole thing behind us if EVERYONE did those three things..even for a month or two. we really never did it, not all of us. people don't do it now..masks under noses, no mask, not washing hands...
there was ZERO reason covid-19 should have been this big to-do. but we are going to be dealing with it for years thanks to the anti-mask and anti-vax crowd...
And teachers were in the 2nd phase of the vaccine rollout ahead of people 65 and older, people with underlying health conditions, and put on the same plane as people 75+ and first responders. Sorry teachers, but you should be down the list as a whole.
Combining this with the UK studies, it's clear that proper ventilation is key. You have got to turnover room air with non-ozone producing HEPA air purifiers and get outside air into classrooms (fresh air dampers, windows, etc.). If you combine this with masks, handwashing and distancing, transmission is very low, even with more contagious variants.
Except they do....medical doctor between vaccine shots got covid from his kids.
He’s doing well.
In Mississippi, teachers are NOT ahead of people 65+, those with health conditions, etc. I disagree with 11:47 on whether they should be, but the fact is they are not.
I can tell you now that a lot of these kids in Rankin County sure as shit aren't wearing masks properly. Then again their parents probably still think it's a Democratic hoax.
11:38 It wouldn't be behind us, but it would be well under control. Too many Mississippians thought the "two weeks to slow the spread" was all that had to be done and their contribution stopped immediately afterward. Mitigation was always to be expected in order to allow businesses to open back up after the lockdown. Only an idiot would think a two week lockdown would completely eliminate a contagious disease.
Unfortunately a significant part of the population looked at that as tyranny and deliberately refused to do anything to help. You also had the "death to the olds" crowd saying the national policy should be to maximize the number of people who got sick as long as you kept hospitals full, but not overwhelmed. And no, that's not hyperbole. There were posters literally calling for hospitals to be continuously pushed to their limit to get herd immunity as quickly as possible (I'm looking at you Team Chaos) no matter how many people died even as treatments and vaccines were under development. "We're all going to get it anyway so get it over as quick as possible" was the lie they liked to promote, and that sounds good to people who can't think more than a week ahead in their lives.
Schools show that mitigation works. Not 100%, but it does cut down on the transmission significantly. It's a shame the public doesn't follow that too or we would not have one of the highest mortality rates in the entire world.
Well, KF, if all kids would go back to school, then proper distancing is not possible anymore. Masks? They wear them only reluctantly. Hand washing? Even most adults didn’t do it before the pandemic.
Yeah, teachers got kicked off the vaccination list here in MS.
Anti-vaxx crowd? It's been on both sides. I guess you ignored all those flyers from um, urban clubs that advertised big parties, some even called "FCovid19" parties. You know, superspreader events? Or the big giant block parties in Jackson for streetball tournaments or whatever they were.
Funny how some of you scream we don't follow the science but when the science says put the kids back in school, y'all scream ignore the science.
And the snowflakes here will still find a reason to keep classrooms closed and publicly cancel dissenters. I swear I hate so many folks because of their behavior in 2020.
Stated another way: Children are better at following instructions than adults.
Wife is a teacher. This resonates. She's had multiple go home with COVID, several of whom sat directly in front of her podium. She has not caught it yet, thankfully.
1:58, my classroom in open, I teach there every school day, with at least half the class present. Some if these kids had covid. I do my part, no complaining here. So please don’t call me a snowflake. But I do not want to be thrown under the bus. We need to follow science, and even the piece of science KF presents here talks about proper distancing and mask wearing. How many are actually doing these two things? And now teachers are off the vaccination list. So little Johnny will soon tell me that his obese parents are vaccinated against what he told me earlier was a hoax, and that he doesn’t need to wear no mask no more....Thanks, Governor! I’ll remember.
@12:57, when you’ve got Klaus Schwab of the IMF telling you, openly, that the powers that be should use this to crush the middle class and people like Newsome, Lightfoot, Pelosi and Cuomo making hardline, shutdown, damn-your-restaurant edicts, then promptly going out to dinner and hair appointments immediately after, maskless.....YES, it is a Democrat scam
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