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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every time I pull up a news site, I am seeing articles about rapidly rising numbers of children being hospitalized and increasing numbers of MISC-C, right next to articles about how the CDC is saying it is safe for schools to open. I scroll down and then see that schools in Europe are closing because the new variants are raging out of control. How do we know what’s safe for the kids?

I’m talking about the kids here. Not spread to, from, or among teachers. Spread from kid to kid. It happens. Kids are getting sick, some are dying. Don’t tell me they’re not. I have an aunt who works in a peds ICU at Vanderbilt. She keeps telling me it’s bad. I know I could keep my own kids home, but they desperately want to be there when it opens. How do we know what the truth is? [/quote]

Anecdotally, in a classroom of 30 masked kids ages 4-5, there was no spread from the kid that tested positive to the other 29 kids. This is FT preschool, where lunch and snacks are served daily. These are little kids who have to eat without masks twice a day, plus they play way together without strict social distancing. So while you'd think this is a high risk of transmission environment, I was pleasantly surprised to find out there was no transmission, even though kid who later tested positive was at school before finding out testing positive. The "no transmission" from kid to kid has happened all three times. So after going through that, I feel much less worried.[/quote]

To clarify, parents being notified a kid tested positive in their classroom occurred at different times.  Totally separate cases that occurred 4 weeks or 2 months apart. In each situation, there was no infection from positive kid to anyone else at school. [/quote]

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