Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains

[denem]

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Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains

Of 1,400 Israelis diagnosed with COVID-19 last month, 657 (47 percent) were infected in schools. Now 2,026 students, teachers, and staff have it, and 28,147 are quarantined.

JERUSALEM—Israel’s unchecked resurgence of COVID-19 was propelled by the abrupt May 17 decision to reopen all schools, medical and public-health officials have told The Daily Beast.

... “Not a single school was prepared,” says Mohammad Khatib, who teaches public health at the Zefat Academic College and is the epidemiological expert on the health ministry’s newly formed advisory committee on the coronavirus in the Arab sector.

“Adults, including teachers and other employees, brought it into schools, which are, in the end, closed spaces,” he said, underscoring the finding that middle-school children proved to be the most dangerous vectors.

... Calls are mounting for a national commission of inquiry to be appointed to investigate the government’s “dereliction of duty,” in the words of former Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-data-show-school-openings-were-a-disaster-that-wiped-out-lockdown-gains

[mackdaddy]

1. Here is the proper link.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-data-show-school-openings-were-a-disaster-that-wiped-out-lockdown-gains

Whatever disaster Israel is doing with CV-19, We can do bigger and more disastrously. Even when it involves kids.

[denem]

2. Thanks.

fixed

[PandoraAwakened]

3. Oh boy.

Actual data on what happens with willy-nilly school openings with no strategies, no planning, other than telling students and teachers to wear masks. (Keep in mind, this is happening in a country that had supposedly not only flattened their curve, but had also declared "victory" over COVID-19 when their caseload was down to just 10 people.)

Well, I guess that gives us a heads-up on the shitstorm we're heading into---seeing as how we're electing the same willy-nilly approach, but with over 3 million infected in the face of a pandemic surge. Okie-dokie, then.

Buckle up...its about to get uglier than most can even conceive.

[Initech]

4. I have a feeling that we'll be in and out of lockdown until the vaccine comes.