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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not totally sure this is a terrible problem for the whole system, anyway -- teachers and in-person staff, having been vaccinated, should be protected. So the risk is only to families of other in-person kids, who presumably were willing to take on some additional risk.[/quote]
The risk is two-fold:
1. it's another faux-batch of "data" on schools being open, that is likely to be used like all the other faux data sources on schools opening, to screech that there is no in-school transmission. 
2. The community at-large is at risk of seeing increased community transmission that we'll blame on whatever else.[/quote]

And you are basing those claims on what...?[/quote]

Hahahahahaha. The irony. 
Every article I've read clamoring for reopening, or being used to clamor for reopening, is putting forward 'data' that looks like this and is not actually data at all. 
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No idea what articles you’ve read, but the ones I read don’t look like your post, and do link to actual data. Screaming and laughing and claiming otherwise isn’t making your post more convincing.[/quote]

Go on and share a study with data on systematic asymptomatic testing of in-school students.[/quote]

It hasn't been published as a study, but they actually did this in Massachusetts, as this article reports:

"The union also named a lack of asymptomatic testing for teachers as a major barrier to returning to in-person learning. To get kids back to school, we implemented such a routine testing plan, at great cost and logistical effort. We discovered that since testing began in January 2021, the positivity rate among teachers and staff has been approximately 0.15 percent — while cases were surging in the Boston metro area — and our contact tracing efforts have not identified any cases of in-building transmission."

https://www.vox.com/2021/2/15/22280763/kids-covid-vaccine-teachers-unions-schools-reopening-cdc

The article also references plenty of other evidence that indicates that with a few basic precautions, there is little transmission within schools. Broad, regular testing of all people within a school isn't the only way to assess the level and likelihood of in-school transmission. I'm sure that's not enough for you, but I'll take the analysis of an epidemiology professor and infectious-disease physician over that of a random DCUM anonymous.[/quote]

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