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We have said this before that schools need to be looked at not as schools but as a commuter city. Everyone for every economic level drives in, works and leaves. Taking with them the days happenings.
We now have the data to support that viewpoint. The data : https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2775008
What this paper points out is 1 how mask mandates work and 2 not that kids are at less risk for getting covid but that their rates of infection rise with everyone else’s.
For example take Hawaii and Arizona. Hawaii has always had a mask mandate. And low numbers of covid in schools.
Arizona on the other hand just said yes to mask and had high rates of covid in its schools.
Ok here’s the fun part of science. Adding more science to it to get better science!
Now take this pre-print paper. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.30.20241224v1
Yes we know it’s from Florida.
Here are the main things to pull from the paper.
This paper shows what happens to teachers who are face to face with the children.
The main point that the paper makes is that teachers by teaching in person raise their R0 rate ( rate of infection ) by ~2x the local infection rate.
Example: Your community has an infection rate of 2%. A teacher going into school to teach will have an infection rate of ~4%.
So, the question then becomes, at what point do we say it’s to dangerous for teachers and schools? Do we take this new data and protect ppl or do we continue on with the old model?
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