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Have crowded school buses been shown to be vectors of transmission?  Any studies on that?

I've said all along that if in person for all isn't possible, getting younger kids  back, grouped in small groups with social distancing on the buses should be prioritized. But everyone keeps arguing with me.

What makes this so difficult from a policy perspective is the public health guidance. It isn't the law, and the CDC guidance is riddled with phrases like "where possible." They are recommendations and if you look at them, they are difficult to implement in crowded schools, particularly high schools. You want your kids back in school, so you will say that the districts are free to ignore these recommendations. I guess that they are. But if things go wrong, everyone will come back for blood because the public health expert advice was ignored. There are also drawbacks to trying to go back and then having to close, which could result in worse outcomes than a better planned DL program with more instruction.

There is no "no risk" scenario, no matter how much you want everyone to be back. The risk isn't just whether kids will die, but whether opening schools will increase community transmission to unacceptable levels. [/quote]

Public transportation, including buses, has been shown to not be a vector of transmission.

In-person school for all is possible - people just need to decide to do it.

Covid is not the only public-health outcome here, even though people are acting as though it is. Keeping children out of school is enormously harmful to public health.[/quote]

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