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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes it is so disheartening when you realize how ignorant most people are about how to read and critically think about scientific literature.

Let me state for the record that I think schools can be open for in-person learning, but, as has been recommended, there must be all the mitigation strategies in place.  Not all school systems can do this as effectively as would be needed.

The other big piece that people gloss over is community spread.  When this data was collected in August-October, community spread was lower than it has been in the past few months.  Community spread has been higher almost everywhere.  Thankfully it seems to be finally starting to drop week by week and with the vaccines, hopefully school openings will increase.

This study did not indicate ZERO spread in schools, as the OP indicated.  It concludes that *with mitigation factors in place and enforced* it did not INCREASE spread in the community.  They are very clear in the limitations section that testing was not universally enforced and they could not analyze child-child and adult-child transmission.

So the study is good news, [b]but it is not this blanket endorsement of opening all schools without careful planning right now. [/b] [/quote]

This study is absolutely news that schools SHOULD reopen with careful planning, right now.  [/quote]

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