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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by ch4s3 on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:14AM (#32056433)
From the CDC

> Findings from several studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission among students is relatively rare, particularly when prevention strategies are in place. An Australian study of 39 COVID-19 cases among 32 students and seven staff traced contacts across 28 schools and six early childhood centers and found only 33 secondary positive cases (28 students and five staff members) out of 3,439 close child contacts and 385 close staff contacts.58, 59 Several contact tracing studies have found limited student-to-student transmission in schools.47, 54, 60, 61

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

To date only about 1200 people 18 and under have died from/with COVID, and those numbers were far lower before the B variants.

Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by mrguyorama on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:06PM (#32059553)
>An Australian study of 39 COVID-19 cases among 32 students and seven staff

A study about Australian schooling and children probably doesn't hold as much here in the US. My family involves lots of teachers. The numbers they came up with do not even remotely track with what they saw in their own schools.

Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by ch4s3 on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:23PM (#32060567)
Well then here's a meta-analysis from June 2020[1], the time in question vis-vis school closures. A study from 2021 finding that school closures had little effect on community transmission[2]. Here's another from 2020[3]. Here's another from last year showing lower transmission by children[4].

>The numbers they came up with do not even remotely track with what they saw in their own schools.

What the research suggests is that you're probably seeing kids under 12 getting COVID from adults.

You can poke around google scholar and see for yourself. Public health articles are quite readable.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311007/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S018844092...

[3] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

[4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ppul.25344