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Children are carriers and transmitters of Covid [b]just as much as adults[/b].

That is a fact that has debunked prior assumptions that existed because children have a lower Covid mortality. Just because they don't die at the same rate as adults do, [b]doesn't mean children don't transmit the virus to those around them at the same rate[/b]. They do. And some of those they transmit to end up dying.

Please don't quote from outdated or overly-lax public health recommendations. Health officials of DC or other jurisdictions have access to the latest data and expert advice and will not be moved by misinformed public pressure.

Let me tell you, as one of those experts, what it would take to open those schools:
1. Close bars, restaurants and entertainment venues.
2. Make mask compliance a priority in schools by distributing free, quality PPE, producing a public campaign for mask compliance in schools, and implementing strict rules for no talking during lunch time at student's individual desks, when masks are off.  Plexiglass dividers should be erected during lunchtime.
3. Strict contact tracing and quarantine procedures.
When numbers are stable, bars, restaurants can open up again with a 10pm curfew, and frequent enforcement visits for client numbers.

The USA prioritizes businesses over education, and has done so for all its history. So none of the above is actually going to happen. Either schools will stay closed while businesses stay open, or we reach such a level of cases that everything is shut down, or cases decrease such that everything opens up again... temporarily, before cases rise again because people don't take enough precautions. Ad nauseam until we reach herd immunity through mass vaccination, sometime in 2022.

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Your points #2 and #3 are so important and these are the things that could put DC on the right track for reopening schools. I'm wondering why you are muddying up such good points with your (inaccurate) statements that children are just as much transmitters of COVID as adults? Or do you mean teens?

Dr. Fauci, ""If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not really very big at all, not like one would have suspected."
Rachel Martin/NPR report, "Schools aren't virus superspreaders - that was the conclusion of a recent study out of Brown University."
CHOP report: "Although children of all ages can spread COVID-19, young children are relatively inefficient drivers of transmission."
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