Even children with no symptoms can spread Covid-19, CDC report shows

[TomCADem]

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Source: MSN

Even children with mild or no symptoms can spread Covid-19, according to contact tracing data from three Utah child care facilities released Friday.

Twelve children, including one eight-month-old, got Covid-19 in a child care facility and spread it to at least 12 people outside the facilities. The data shows children can carry the virus from child care settings to their homes, the researchers wrote in a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Half a million US children have now been diagnosed with coronavirus, with a 16% increase between August 20 and September 3, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.

Though fewer children appear to experience severe illness from the virus than adults, one question that has loomed large, especially for those grappling with decisions about reopening schools and day cares, is exactly what role children play in the transmission of the virus. The CDC report suggests that they can and do spread coronavirus.

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[soothsayer]

1. Good to see it confirmed

Seemed obvious to many, but those distracted by the lies coming from the WH need confirmation I reckon.

[PSPS]

2. "one question that has loomed large"

Though fewer children appear to experience severe illness from the virus than adults, one question that has loomed large, especially for those grappling with decisions about reopening schools and day cares, is exactly what role children play in the transmission of the virus.

Um, no. There was never any "question" about it unless your lazy reporters continue to report white house propaganda as somehow an acceptable "alternative" to truthful facts from qualified scientists.

[BadGimp]

3. Once infected, everyone becomes a spreader

well before they become symptomatic...

DUH!

[calclar]

4. And the PREsymtomatic...

...are the ones (children or adult) spreading the most contagion !

[rickyhall]

5. I wonder if trump isn't a symptom-free carrier like Typhoid Mary.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. I just want to say how terrible news like this is for seniors, grandparents etc

Further nails down any kind of hope for opening up of older care homes for visits from children and families.

So sad if it was your last year on earth, before any vaccine, living in a care home or hospital, and have to die alone.

[EllieBC]

7. I don't think I could do it.

If I were even in my 80s I would assume that every year is potentially my last. I wouldn’t be able to handle being alone because someone wanted to “protect” me. Protect me how? By making my little time left lonely and sad?

[Warpy]

8. Flinging the schools wide open was monumentally stupid.

This administration was relying on months old "kids don't get sick" data that have been found to be in error. In addition, none of them have given a single thought to any of the adults who are coming into contact with kids after they've been infected at school.

Schools really should have been the last places to open, behind sports aqrenas and bars.

[EllieBC]

9. They've closed our bars and banquet halls in BC again.

In order to get schools open. AFAIK they did in Denmark too.

Schools are essential. This isn’t 1950. Boys aren’t going to go work in factories and girls aren’t just going to go get married after high school. They need an education. And remote wasn’t good for many kids. We can’t ignore children with learning delays or kids from poor neighbourhoods and just keep the neurotypical or suburbanite kids educated.

[Warpy]

11. A lot of kids are going to lose considerable ground

I was a nerd and self starter, so when I was pulled out of school for some family crisis or other, I'd race through the week's workk on Monday and be done with it, first grade through sophomore year. I usually read library books in class, anyway.

Other kids aren't like that and many of them will need to repeat grades. It is still a hell of a lot better than losing them to this disease, even though it's rare, or losing teachers or losing their extended family. It's one of those risk/benefit things that has to be considered, even though parents ar ready to tear their hair out having their little darlings underfoot for so many months. Maybe this will discourage some of the helicopter parenting out there, they'll be that sick of their kids. They'll need to be reminded that it's a small price to pay for keeping more of us alive.

[SergeStorms]

10. There's one more question people should be asking.

How will the virus affect these children later in life? They might not show symptoms now, but it still remains in their young bodies. Is it going to come back at some time and kick their young butts? Being a novel virus there are many questions we don't have the answers to.

[applegrove]

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