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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very sad article! Makes me rethink full time  in person school.  We need to get creative to keep kids distanced.  School districts should be upgrading filtration and providing medical grade masks too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/04/pediatrician-covid-children-delta/?itid=hp_opinions[/quote]

At least the doctor who wrote it alludes to her cognitive biases around thinking COVID causes severe illness in children.  It does, for a small percentage, and that's tragic in those cases.  Of course it is.  But we really, really need to avoid relying on these kinds of anecdotes to drive policy.[/quote]

These are not anecdotes.

an·ec·dote
/ˈanəkˌdōt/
 
noun
noun: anecdote; plural noun: anecdotes
a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
"told anecdotes about his job"

Similar:
story
tale
narrative
sketch
urban myth
urban legend
reminiscence
yarn
shaggy-dog story

-an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay.
"his wife's death has long been the subject of rumor and anecdote"

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Sure.  Then they're narratives about personal observations, utterly lacking in context and meant to... what?  Scare people?  Inform policy?  Raise awareness?  All of the above?

The larger point is that we don't have the data we need to know accurate information about true risks for COVID (especially in the context of the delta variant) and kids, in particular.  The stories told by some pediatricians in some hospitals may or may not be useful in generating that accurate information.[/quote]

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