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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by staplers on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:22PM (#24148336)
You can see the death rate dropping while cases are dramatically going up which one could argue is that exact mitigation happening.

Masks, sanitation, and distance have likely lowered the overall viral load even if one does contract it. Obviously higher testing rates contribute to the decreasing death rate but given the blind studies from asia I don't think it would be that drastic of a reduction.

It gives me some hope we can lower the risk enough to have children interact with the caveat being adults actually enforce masks/sanitation/distance.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by nico_h on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:42PM (#24152234)
The big question marks are "Long COVID", which I haven't seen mentioned about kids (so, good news?), and ADE reaction (Antibody Dependent Enhancement , of the virus) which we'll see in the second wave, when people get re-infected.
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