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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really frustrated the loudest voices seem to be the "Corona virus is a hoax" types and "stay home until the vaccine" people. There are safe and cautious ways to ways to reopen if we listen to the epidemiologists and public health experts. [/quote]

+1.  The vast majority of people I know fall on a spectrum somewhere between these two extremes.

I appreciate Emily Oster's work on school re-opening.  She's an economist, but she relies on data from public health experts.  It's a shame (one of so many!) that the U.S. has not done a great job so far with comprehensive data collection.

The U.K. just published a very comprehensive report on COVID infection and transmission in school settings when schools re-opened in June and July.  The take away is that infection rates were surprisingly low, particularly for students (0.008%), but even for staff as well (0.02%).  Less surprisingly, there was a correlation between infection and transmission rates in schools and the incidence of COVID in the local community.  It's an interesting read.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sars-cov-2-infection-and-transmission-in-educational-settings

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Agreed- and it kind of drives home how backwards we have it here.  The states with high community transmission are largely resuming in-person school when they probably shouldn't be, whereas the opposite is occurring in areas where community transmission is low.  [/quote]

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