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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regular in-person school seems to be working in Europe and Asia.  Children apparently are not as susceptible to the disease.  High school students are more likely to get it than younger kids.  There are few reports of students "bringing it home."  If I were an older teacher and could retire, I would probably consider that.  We are not in Houston or Miami or some other place where the virus is rampant.

I believe we should start with in-person learning but be ready to go to DL if that becomes necessary.   [/quote]

[b]Oh, for God's sake, keep up, and stop repeating the tired old untrue lines from April and May that "children apparently as not as susceptible to the disease" or "we all know kids don't spread it anyway."  It is July, we have much more information and that is JUST.  NOT.  TRUE.  [/b]

And please, for the love of crap, don't try to compare the United States to Europe or Asia.  Compare their national response and their case rates to ours.  NO comparison.  None.  What they do or do not do there is wildly irrelevant to the U.S.

And, of course, it matters not in the slightest that "we are not in Houston ir Miami," as borders do not protect us, and as a whole slew of selfish jerks are about to come streaming home to the DMV from Florida and Disney.  It takes one case to start a new spread.  Just wait.[/quote]

This is not yet settled science—I spoke with an epi colleague who works in infectious diseases this week, and he feels that there are conflicting data on this.

This recent article lays out some of the evidence suggesting that kids don’t spread CV as well as teens.  The available epi data on outbreaks around the world, combined with contact tracing data, suggest the kids do not spread it very well, unlike the influenza virus.

[b]“Transmission in elementary school seems lower than in high schools, according to Dr. Naomi Bardach, associate professor of UCSF’s Department of Pediatrics[/b]. There’s limited data on middle-school and preschool children, she said.

Based on her analysis of research, [b]“staff and teachers, as adults, are more likely to transmit it to each other,” she said.”[/b]

Also, there are some biological hypotheses discusses in the article that may explain why kids don’t seem to spread it as much as teens and adults.  Basically, younger kids don’t have as much of a particular receptor that the virus attaches itself to, relative to teenagers and adults:

“ So why aren’t young kids super-spreaders? It’s a mystery. Surely, we thought, their dripping noses and sticky little hands are loaded with germs.[b] A new study found that younger children have less of a receptor called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which the virus needs to enter cells. Expression of the gene for this receptor is lowest in 4- to 9-year-olds[/b]. It is higher in 10- to 17-year-olds, although still lower than in adults.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-kids-arent-the-germbags-and-grownups-are/amp/[/quote]

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