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[quote=Anonymous]How about a study of 90,000 staff and students across 11 school districts? Duke has already done this and published in Pediatrics. Stop believing random commenters on WaPo and pay attention to real medical scientists.

https://today.duke.edu/2021/01/duke-study-when-schools-take-covid-safety-measures-viral-transmissions-person-schooling-are?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Duke%20study%20on%20schools&utm_campaign=Weekly_2021-01-30

"The study included data from 11 of the partner school districts that were open for all nine weeks of the first quarter and agreed to track both COVID-19 case count and secondary transmission for research purposes. From these districts, which included over 90,000 students and staff attending in-person instruction, there were 773 cases acquired from the community. In contrast, contact tracing from the state health department identified only 32 infections that were acquired within schools through secondary transmission.

During the study timeframe, we saw significant community spread of COVID-19,” said DCRI pediatrician Dr. Danny Benjamin, co-chair of the ABC Science Collaborative. “If we’d seen the same rates of secondary transmission in the schools as we were seeing in the community, we would have expected between 800 and 900 secondary infections. However, we saw only 32. This indicates that it is possible for schools to safely remain open in communities with widespread community transmission.”[/quote]

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