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From the toldyaso department: the Korean government report hyped by NYT and other anti-schoolers actually showed 97 percent of households with the virus had it brought in by an adults, and most of the other 3% were *shared initial exposures* between adult and child.
I wrote about that here: https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/22/new-york-times-hyped-korean-report-actually-shows-kids-are-not-spreading-coronavirus/
Now BMJ publishes a study on the same Korean children, but removes the instances of shared exposure. They find a grand total of *one* pediatric household transmission. A 16 year old who infected a 14 year old sibling. https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/06/archdischild-2020-319910
ICYMI: The Korean dataset that Randi Weingarten touted as the reason teachers can't teach found... **zero instances** of a child infecting an adult. Not even a parent.
So where are all the corrections/follow-up stories on Korea?
Surprisingly, NYT kinda sorta corrected -- with a nondescript headline and they do pretend the original paper they fake-news scare-headlined didn't explicitly say "we could not determine direction of transmission.”
But I guess it's something. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/health/older-children-and-the-coronavirus-a-new-wrinkle-in-the-debate.html
But I guess it's something. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/health/older-children-and-the-coronavirus-a-new-wrinkle-in-the-debate.html
At least we get to see the anti-school NYT forced to admit the obvious: “We’re not seeing a lot of real transmission from children.”
I guess she jinxed it. https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1289290735540289543
And the NYT's anti-schooler activist on staff did a victory dance after her false reporting. Hoped she wouldn't "jinx it." https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1294663269085577216
A half-hearted, week-headlined walkback is more of a CYA than a true corrective. The original article was obviously sensationalist anti-school activist nonsense *when published*. https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1294644233488543744
How many children will die of suicide or drug overdose because NYT fake-newsed the Korean data and scared schools into closures?
