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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gayle just said children can catch it and have complications.[/quote]

https://montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

0 deaths in MoCo in 0-17 age group.

447 cases out of 100,000 population[/quote]

If you don’t trust him, how can we reopen schools?[/quote]

Kids will probably be okay if they get it, but their teachers, parents, and grandparents not so much.[/quote]

Think about the many low income students at my school who live in crowded multigenerational households. That’s a lot of potential trauma. And there are usually 3 or 4 a year who are in family foster care with a grandparent raising them. If that grandparent dies, they will be placed with strangers or even in a group home. [/quote]

Except the kid isn't getting it at school and giving it to the grandparent.  That's not how this works.[/quote]

We don't know how this works.  Think about everything we "knew" a month ago.  This is a new virus.  We're going to learn new things about it as we go.[/quote]

At this point, actually, there's quite a bit of evidence that that's not how it works.[/quote]

I've seen the links.  [b]All the studies are of extraordinarily small groups, which undermine their accuracy.  For the international examples, there are some that say schools aren't vectors (like France and Denmark), and some that suggest they are (like South Korea, Israel, Canada and China).[/b]

We don't know.[/quote]

Research scientist here. The bolded is correct. For now, caution dictates we consider children to transmit just as much as adults, because the evidence to the contrary is not credible.

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What kind of research scientist?  Infectious disease specialist?  Immunologist?[/quote]

Microbiologist, who works with doctors and virologists and immunologists.
Please note that any research scientist in the biomedical sciences, or any doctor, can take the time to read primary research papers and understand them. 
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And actually, as a researcher in a non medical field, it’s easy to see that we don’t have enough evidence yet.  We have anecdotal reports, but not much else
Rely on one way or another yet[/quote]

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