"[The findings from] a large new study from South Korea...suggest that as schools reopen, communities will see clusters of infection take root that include children of all ages, several experts cautioned."
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"Several studies from Europe & Asia have suggested that young children are less likely to get infected and to spread the virus. But most of those studies were small & flawed - Dr. Jha, director of Harvard Global Health Institute"
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"The new study “is very carefully done, it’s systematic and looks at a very large population,” Dr. Jha said. “It’s one of the best studies we’ve had to date on this issue.”
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"Young children may show higher attack rates when the school closure ends, contributing to community transmission of Covid-19” - new large South Korean study
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"Other studies have also suggested that the large number of contacts for schoolchildren, who interact with dozens of others for a good part of the day, may cancel out their smaller risk of infecting others."
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The study only looked at children who actually had symptoms:
"it’s still unclear how efficiently asymptomatic children spread the virus, said Caitlin Rivers,an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health"
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"it’s still unclear how efficiently asymptomatic children spread the virus, said Caitlin Rivers,an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health"
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"The bottom line message is: There’s going to be transmission.”
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"Apart from implementing physical distancing, hand hygiene..masks, schools should also decide when & how to test students & staff..when and how long to require people to quarantine, and when to decide to close & reopen schools"
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"putting [children] together in schools, having them mix with teachers and other students will provide additional opportunities for the virus to move from person to person”
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