Anonymous wrote:I live in another state. Our private school with about 500 kids PK-8 started in person with the option for DL in August. Approx. 20% of families, including us, chose DL. I really thought opening the school was a mistake and expected the school to be closed within a month. That didn’t happen. Earlier this month, we gave up on DL and sent our kids back after seeing (1) no outbreaks at school and (2) how much of a struggle DL was both from an educational and social standpoint. One of our kids was really getting depressed (and he’s the one who usually claims to hate school!). Going back has been life-changing for our whole family. DH and I can now get our own work done without interruptions and, most importantly, our kids are so happy. Gone are the days when we had to drag them out of bed to get them dressed for school. They have never been so excited about going. I’m sure it won’t last. However, I cannot imagine keeping them home until fall 2022.
I’m not a Trump who believes Covid is no big deal. But I’m beginning to believe the side effects of being on indefinite lockdown may outweigh the effects of Covid for much of the population, especially school-ages kids. I wouldn’t have said this back in July.
Anonymous wrote:For those wondering, expect vaccinations to rollout and schools to be fully back in session (no hybrid or DL) in 2022 not 2021.
Below is an expected timeline for approval of a COVID vaccine.
After approval there will be the hurdles of mass production and mass adoption.
It's hard for me to imagine us getting past those steps before mid to late 2022.
I'd love to be wrong but I'm just being realistic.
Anonymous wrote:I have no idea why people are pretending in-person, five-day-per-week schooling will happen in the big public school systems prior to 2022. You can read the union positions on return to work; they are published. Those standards will not be met before 2022 even WITH an effective, fully distributed vaccine for adults only, and assuming there will be a safe, effective, and fully distributed vaccine is a large assumption. Maybe there will be an effective clinical cure, but I am skeptical.
Personally I think people are engaging in this mass delusion to avoid the hard consequences of what it means to not have regular school until 2022 earliest.
Anonymous wrote:The vaccine won’t be for children. They aren’t testing it in children and children won’t receive it.
Does anyone know when children will start getting vaccine? How soon after they roll out the vaccine for adults?
If all the adults are vaccinated, will they reopen schools? Or do we have to wait until everyone, including children, can be vaccinated first? If the kids also need to be vaccinated first, then I agree it definitely won’t be reopening in 2021.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“After approvals there will be the hurdles of mass production.” No- mass production is happening now. The hurdles to getting that started were eradicated when the government and pharmaceutical companies themselves decided to take the financial risk of manufacture before approval.
The manufacturers leading the pack anticipate enough doses to vaccinate every American by summer of 2021. Approval is imminent, and frontline workers will be first in line.
Get out of here with late 2022 bs.
There's been a shortage of Shingrix pretty much the whole time it's supposed to have been available. If there weren't hurdles to mass production, we would have had more masks, more tests, more Lysol wipes.
You can get surgical masks easily now. Soap and water works as well as wipes.
Have you tried washing your phone with soup and water??
Cleaning phones is not an obstacle to going to school. OMG.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I work for one of these companies and the data in this table is incorrect.
Manufacturers have also been paid to produce commercial supplies at risk. Thet are currently manufacturing billions of doses at risk. These will be thrown out if the trials dont work. But if approved, significant commercial stock will be available immediately for shipment.
Are you saying there are Phase 3 vaccine trials that are on track for Approvals before 2nd Quarter 2021 (so Mar-Apr 2021)?
Yes.
Where? JNJ just started its Phase 3 Trials in Sept. AstraZeneca and Eli Lily both began trials in August and were paused due to complications.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/fourth-large-scale-covid-19-vaccine-trial-begins-united-states
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Probably a dozen vaccine manufacturers have said they will be ready in spring or summer. Not to mention schools are already back all over the country without spread. Stop fearmongering. It’s so tiresome.
Yeah 77,000 Covid positive cases in a single week among children sounds a lot like zero spread. Get real.
77,073 new child cases reported from 9/24-10/8 (608,718 to 685,791), a 13% increase in child cases over 2 weeks
https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/
There has been a 90% increase in Covid-19 cases in US children in the last four weeks, report says.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/health/covid-19-children-cases-rising-wellness/index.html
Approximately 56 million school-aged children (aged 5–17 years) resumed education in the United States in fall 2020.* Analysis of demographic characteristics, underlying conditions, clinical outcomes, and trends in weekly coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidence during March 1–September 19, 2020 among 277,285 laboratory-confirmed cases in school-aged children in the United States might inform decisions about in-person learning and the timing and scaling of community mitigation measures. During May–September 2020, average weekly incidence (cases per 100,000 children) among adolescents aged 12–17 years (37.4) was approximately twice that of children aged 5–11 years (19.0).
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That article is from August 11, you freaking moron. But great way to make your point! LOLOLOL
And the study of the 77,000 cases is from October 8th. Child cases are rising and there isn't a damned thing you can do about it but keep them from spreading it through mass school gatherings.
Good luck burying your head in the sand for the rest of 2020 though.