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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so confused- why are you opting out of testing? You don’t want to know when your child has COVID?[/quote]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/19/schools-covid-testing-cost/[/quote]

You're quoting an outlook editorial from April 19. The risks, and resulting risk-benefit analyses were different then.

This is what WaPo outlook editorials sound like today, August 8, 2021.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/04/pediatrician-covid-children-delta/

[quote= in her title and subtitle, she ]
I treat pediatric covid patients. What I’m seeing in our hospital scares me.
Children can and do get very ill from the virus. The delta variant, the unvaccinated and a summer surge in a childhood respiratory disease are worrying.[/quote]
[quote=in her concluding sentence, she ]
Masking (including universal masking in schools), physical distancing, testing, contact tracing, quarantining and vaccinating do help. If we abandon these crucial tools now, we are putting our children in harm’s way.[/quote][/quote]

Math hasn't changed.  [/quote]

Covid has, though. [/quote]

Only in terms of transmissibility. The risk to kids if they get infected remains extremely low, no matter what some doctors say they are seeing anecdotally. More kids get infected means the absolute numbers will rise. Also consider that many of these kids may have RSV or another virus in addition to testing positive for Covid. Hospitals won’t necessarily test for these other viruses (in my experience not even when the Covid test is negative and there is severe disease), but they test everyone for Covid.[/quote]

What exactly is your clinical experience? If a child is sick in the hospital they are most likely tested for at least 20 of the most common of respiratory viruses, which includes RSV.[/quote]

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