It would be very useful to have an explanation from public health officials of differing viewpoints as to how they’ve arrived at the conclusion that COVID does or doesn’t spread in schools. For example, has lack of data been equated with “there’s no data to suggest”? https://twitter.com/Aaron_Derfel/status/1359682142897401861

There are a good many countries that accept school spread as a fact and craft their policies accordingly. Is it because they’re gathering more data? (ie, testing symptomatic children, testing MORE children?)

(I meant testing *asymptomatic* children)

For example, in this clip from RAI, they're discussing an outbreak of B117, saying that it's being driven by the school. They say 60% of the students tested positive for the variant...which has to mean they are doing quite a bit of testing

(it's a small place with a small school, so it's probably easier to test a large number)

And in Bergamo they're also having problems controlling outbreaks of the B117 variant. Bergamo schools request "an antigen testing program for school personnel + students to control the outbreak." https://bergamo.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/21_febbraio_16/coronavirus-bergamo-boom-contagi-scuola-due-settimane-cf0d2168-7069-11eb-8f84-ab1601eaf9fe.shtml