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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People yelled: "Science says covid isn't transmitted in school!!" based on odd this-is-what-we-got, half-assed indirect interpretation of barely related, laughably incomplete data, without a single actual study with widespread systematic asymptomatic testing of all students.

The same people are now demanding "studies, real studies with control groups" before they even consider the risk of long-covid in kids.[/quote]

False equivalence.

Regarding spread in schools, what we did have were solid contact tracing studies in other countries that showed that cases that were diagnosed outside of school didn't originate or spread there. We also had plenty of testing, in this country and abroad, of school contacts, and again we didn't see even many close contacts within the school getting infected, even without masks in many cases abroad. That leaves me reassured that in school spread is rare. I don't demand zero risk.

Our knowledge of this situation is based on much more data than what some people think they know about long Covid in kids. Those few studies involved asking about a long list of common symptoms 6 weeks after their illness (not asymptomatic infection), without a control group. There is no evidence to assume that those symptoms were debilitating or wouldn't resolve over a longer period of time. You are right, we don't have a time machine, but for now there is nothing to indicate that we would end up with a large number of chronically debilitated kids, especially from asymptomatic infection. There were millions of kids infected with Covid over the past year and a half all over the world, and so far, there is no epidemic of debilitated kids.[/quote]

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