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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have three kids, one in preschool/daycare, and the older two in a distance learning hub in their school building.  All three will keep going to these places until they’re forced to shut down.  DH and I don’t go anywhere aside from occasional trips to the grocery store, we both work FT, and our kids need childcare.

[b]Daycares don’t drive COVID transmission. [/b] Neither do small groups of older kids, wearing masks, and spaced apart appropriately.[/quote]

I'm sure they don't drive in large numbers, but I know two people who got covid from their kids in day care  earlier this year, so I would like to see local numbers. I'm not alarmist, I'm a parent who needs my day care open, but I want to have a clear and informed view of risk in December, not July. [/quote]

You know that many daycares were open for children of essential workers throughout the pandemic, right?  If daycares were a major driver of transmission, even in areas with high positivity rates, we’d know it by now.  Cases here and there, sure.  We have neighbors who all got COVID from their youngest being in daycare (they were all fine, thankfully).

If you want no exposure to your kid, keep them home.  [b]But please don’t imply that daycares are some hidden source of major COVID spread.[/b]  They’re not.[/quote]

Where did you get that from PP?  The data should be available.  What's wrong with asking for that?
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First of all, no, there won't be data from December because it's December 1.  So "risk in December" has to be extrapolated.  Second, PP is implying that because of the current spike, the numbers in daycares must be higher than in July.  Maybe a little higher, but what I was pointing out is that daycares have been open this whole time in places with much higher community spread than we have (or have ever had) and there aren't data to suggest they're driving those outbreaks.  People in this area forget how different it is in the rest of the country.[/quote]

I'm the PP interested in "risk in December." Yes, I realize there are not statistics for the future. But the future is what i need to plan for, and I can't do that very well if the only data I can find on day cares and COVID in my state stops in August. Day cares weren't even allowed to open at capacity until October here. Obviously, October and November data would be more useful than April or July.

And who said the numbers must be higher? I didn't because [i]I can't find this information[/i]. It would be just as much of a guess to say that based on July numbers, spread in day cares is minor now.

Yes, there are other states, but many are not comparable in a lot of other ways. I'm also not sure where data on this is being collected or reported because all of the synthesis studies I've found also deal with the spring and summer, and I don't have time to look for where 49 other states report on this. If you have a good comparison for MD, I'm all ears! [/quote]

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