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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All things being equal kids are less infectious than adults.  However, Kids are just as infectious once you factor in proximity, time, and difficulty following all the all the regulations.  This is what China has learned and why they are shutting down schools.[/quote]

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The point is that the current data show that child-to-child and child-to-adult transmission is rare. I don't think they were able to contact-trace a single case of that kind. What you are claiming implies that it has somehow been shown that kids are less infectious per se, but that in practice they do transmit the virus just as much as adults due to their behaviors and the school setting. I would like to know what that is based on besides pure conjecture. Is China shutting down schools because they have that sort of evidence, or are they shutting them down because they are panicking about a general rise in cases?[/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/health/coronavirus-children-transmission-school.html[/quote]

[b]Something to note on these studies is that study #1 is a simulation.  #2 is saying kids have just as much virus as adults.  Neither study cites evidence that kids have actually spread the virus.
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But even if they do, hopefully in the span of two months, we will have more knowledge of the virus, we will have more treatments, we will have gotten the R0 low enough that school can resume, schools reopening in other countries may give us a road map.  We may just need to figure out how to live with this, just as we do many other viruses where there aren't vaccines.  A widely available vaccine in the fall or early 2021 isn't a guarantee.  [/quote]

Yes, these are old news, and do NOT prove or even study if kids actually transmit the virus. [/quote]

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