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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I mean high community spread correlates with communities that fail to wear masks and social distance.

the other issue is that in the DC area basically nobody is willing to actually say what is an acceptable level of community spread to open school[/quote]

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