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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The AAP is stating something that has not been proven to be true. The University of Geneva has conducted a study that says when kids are sick they have just as much virus as adults. The AAP making recommendations that are not widely proven and could be as dangerous when the CDC killed people by telling them not to wear masks.[/quote]

Is that the same as transmission rate? I think you are making an unsupported leap.[/quote]
They might not transmit the disease at the same rate as adults, but it's simply not true that we know that "kids don’t infect adults with this. They just don’t." (in the words of a PP).   We don't know that yet.  And it kind of belies common sense and our experience of other diseases to say that kids NEVER infect others.  Perhaps that will turn out to be true, but we don't know enough about this disease to be so confident.  We do know that other schools have reopened and then had to close because of outbreaks, so we know that schools can be the site of spread.  [/quote]

+100. If you know anything about medicine and biology, you would know that if a child is exhibiting symptoms, especially of coronavirus which takes a rather large viral load to produce symptoms, then they can transmit the virus. There simply isn’t any conceivable way around that. Now, the jury is still out on asymptomatic cases which kids have a higher tendency of having, for sure. And in that sense, they may transmit less than adults. But a child who has any symptoms is quite unquestionably capable of transmitting the virus. [/quote]

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