A teacher and 2 kids in my son’s preschool class tested positive. Hard to say if the kids gave it to the teacher or the other way around. Kids would have never been tested if the teacher didn’t have symptoms- they were completely asymptomatic.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, there’s belief and now there are studies.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/looking-at-children-as-the-silent-spreaders-of-sars-cov-2/

Hmm, kids really are germ beasts. How often were people being tested in your schools and with which tests? Rapid tests suck.

Don’t you think that if it was rapidly spreading among the kids that at least some of their parents would get sick and be symptomatic?

PP is cherrypicking research (from August, before schools opened) to support her position (likely because she's feeling defensive about pushing to keep schools closed).

Viral load in the nose is not the same thing as being a superspreader. The information we have on actual transmission in schools does not support the PP's position.

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/kids-school-and-covid-19-what-we-know-and-what-we-don-t

Anonymous wrote:Well, there’s belief and now there are studies.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/looking-at-children-as-the-silent-spreaders-of-sars-cov-2/

Hmm, kids really are germ beasts. How often were people being tested in your schools and with which tests? Rapid tests suck.

Don’t you think that if it was rapidly spreading among the kids that at least some of their parents would get sick and be symptomatic?

Well, there’s belief and now there are studies.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/looking-at-children-as-the-silent-spreaders-of-sars-cov-2/

Hmm, kids really are germ beasts. How often were people being tested in your schools and with which tests? Rapid tests suck.

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Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
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OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

Your post implies that you are assuming the teacher got it from one of the students. That isn't necessarily the case. We have had 4 teachers at our daycare test positive. All 4 of them contracted covid from someone outside of the school. Fortunately, none of the children or parents in their classes became symptomatic.

The PP sounds like an MCPS teacher with an axe to grind.

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

Your post implies that you are assuming the teacher got it from one of the students. That isn't necessarily the case. We have had 4 teachers at our daycare test positive. All 4 of them contracted covid from someone outside of the school. Fortunately, none of the children or parents in their classes became symptomatic.

Anonymous wrote:Unless all the kids were tested, you have no idea whether or not they had it. My sister and her DH tested positive. None of their kids showed any symptoms at all. All three tested positive.

This.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

This. Children tend to spread the virus to adults, and can be asymptomatic. That's why teachers are the ones who are more concerned about going back. Why can't people understand this?

If that were the case, wouldn't all the parents be getting sick? Would love to see some science that shows this is happening.

I posted earlier about the 2 year old. His parents tested negative as well. Turns out he likely got it from his grandfather.

So the 2 year old wasn't spreading the virus, it sounds like (unless I read the wrong post)? Which is consistent with the science being reported showing that young children are less likely to spread the virus than older children or adults.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

This. Children tend to spread the virus to adults, and can be asymptomatic. That's why teachers are the ones who are more concerned about going back. Why can't people understand this?

If that were the case, wouldn't all the parents be getting sick? Would love to see some science that shows this is happening.

I posted earlier about the 2 year old. His parents tested negative as well. Turns out he likely got it from his grandfather.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

This. Children tend to spread the virus to adults, and can be asymptomatic. That's why teachers are the ones who are more concerned about going back. Why can't people understand this?

If that were the case, wouldn't all the parents be getting sick? Would love to see some science that shows this is happening.

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

This. Children tend to spread the virus to adults, and can be asymptomatic. That's why teachers are the ones who are more concerned about going back. Why can't people understand this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

Wouldn’t you expect parents to show symptoms then? Genuinely trying to understand.

Do you not understand what asymptomatic means?

Ah DCUM. Can count on you. I actually do understand what asymptotic means. So you’re suggesting all the children in the daycare class were asymptotic AND all of their parents were as well?

*asymptomatic

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

Wouldn’t you expect parents to show symptoms then? Genuinely trying to understand.

Do you not understand what asymptomatic means?

Ah DCUM. Can count on you. I actually do understand what asymptotic means. So you’re suggesting all the children in the daycare class were asymptotic AND all of their parents were as well?

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

?? do you have anything at all to back that up?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

Wouldn’t you expect parents to show symptoms then? Genuinely trying to understand.

Do you not understand what asymptomatic means?