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Sigh. Some of us scientists have been telling you this for months.  The reason is that children transmit the virus yet are often asymptomatic, and therefore exposures are not caught in time to stop community spread. Schools are accelerators of viral spread. Since children are not at high risk of Covid complications, hospitalizations and deaths caused by school spread occur among the most vulnerable among us in the community, outside of the school.

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Except a lot scientists and public health experts haven't been saying that, and still aren't. Young children- particularly those in elementary school and daycare, do not seem to substantial sources of community spread. Older kids may be a different story, but not the <10 crowd.[/quote]

This has been a known thing for months. MONTHS. The fact that you all want to ignore it when young children especially are a impact threat is ridiculous. Because young children are often asymptomatic, that makes them extremely effective carriers of the virus. They don't die off like the older population and they are not isolated and hospitalized like individuals in teens to adults age group. They spread viruses so easily. Even parents noted at the pandemic that when their kids were at home with them during the shutdown they spent weeks without being sick, unlike a regular year when the kids were in school or later in the summer where the kids met back up with friends + playdates in bubbles.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/nhregister/status/1298118787909267456[/twitter]
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Children infected with COVID-19 have a higher level of virus in their airways than adults hospitalized with the illness, according to a new study by Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General Hospital for Children.

The study indicates children may have a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than originally thought.[/b]

https://www.nhregister.com/news/coronavirus/article/Silent-carrier-Study-shows-kids-could-pose-15512067.php[/quote]

Again, viral load studies are nearly worthless. First, as I said above, they all suffer from severe selection bias because they're only looking at kids who got sick enough to seek medical attention. And two, they don't measure spread/transmission. [b]The studies that did look at transmission concluded kids younger than 10 are less likely to pick up/transmit the virus.[/b]  That is not controversial, and you'd know that if you read more than just headlines from mass media.[/quote]

Link?[/quote]

This NYT article describes several such studies in a fairly balanced way. It should work pretty well as a starting point:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/parenting/coronavirus-children-spread-covid-19.html[/quote]

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