Are seniors being put at risk if children return to school?

[Nevilledog]

Researchers found that 3.3 million seniors lived with school-aged children.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/seniors-put-risk-children-return-school/story

Millions of seniors – particularly those of ethnic minorities – are living with school-aged children and could be put at risk when kids return to school, according to a new report by Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health policy group.

Children represent a small portion of the total number of coronavirus cases, with recent CDC reports showing figures around or under 5%, although the precise percentage varies from report to report.

Nevertheless, concerns have been raised that children could transmit the virus, even when asymptomatic. The consequences of this are amplified if the children are living with vulnerable adults at home, such as elderly relatives.

“Children are less likely to transmit COVID, but not zero risk,” Dr. Lenore Jarvis, an emergency medicine physician and director of advocacy and health policy at the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., told ABC News. “Special considerations are needed ... for seniors in the home.”

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[LakeArenal]

1. Pretty sure it puts everyone at risk.

[pandr32]

2. Returning children to schools is insane

A responsible, legitimate government protects its citizens.

[virgogal]

9. Governments in Europe and Asia

are sending kids back to school,which is good for the kids.

[pandr32]

10. They also don't have an out of control pandemic

[Phoenix61]

3. Recent research shows children under age 10

are unlikely to transmit. Children over age 10 transmit as well as adults.

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5. Ask any office worker who is planning to return to work:

Would you plant yourself in a conference room and schedule 7 or 8 meetings with 12 or more people each?

Everyone would say nfw. My office plans say I can't even have a one-on-one in an office, I'll have to use video chat.

But that's a teacher's day, every day.

In-school learning during a pandemic is begging for death and suffering for the entire community.

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4. The main reason children haven't spread it much is because they've been so effectively isolated.

Many kids are at home literally all the time, while a parent goes out to get groceries or whatever. Kids are simply being better at doing the stay at home thing.

There's some evidence that kids under 10 are less likely to spread it in similar situations. Maybe less lung projection capacity, I don't know. But that isn't the case of kids 10-19. Older kids spread it as much or more than adults in similar situations.

[HotTeaBag]

6. It's not even *just* the seniors that might live with kids at home

but community spread that will reach seniors with zero contact with kids in their immediate family.

[guillaumeb]

7. Of course, but Trump does not care about anyone but himself.

And his followers will "explain" that all of the dead had pre-existing conditions.

[Midnight Writer]

8. No children in my household, but neighbor kids come running up to tell me something daily.

Sweet kids, but they have no concept of disease transmission.

I can see a local school building from my house, and I bet dollars to donuts that I will see kids leaving that school taking off their masks as soon as they hit the door. They will then congregate, socialize and horseplay with youthful vigor.