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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 Childrens National Hospital in Washington, D.C., told ABC News. Special considerations are needed ... for seniors in the home.
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LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)pandr32
(11,611 posts)A responsible, legitimate government protects its citizens.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)are sending kids back to school,which is good for the kids.
pandr32
(11,611 posts)Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)are unlikely to transmit. Children over age 10 transmit as well as adults.
unblock
(52,317 posts)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.
unblock
(52,317 posts)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
(1,206 posts)but community spread that will reach seniors with zero contact with kids in their immediate family.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And his followers will "explain" that all of the dead had pre-existing conditions.
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)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.