Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
by ch4s3 on Monday July 11, 2022 @01:42PM
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The CDC summary I link to elsewhere in the comments points to numerous studies showing very little spread by grade school age children.
> They are basically a tunnel for spreading from one family to another
This wasn't and generally hasn't been the case for children under 12 as the aforementioned research points out. Spread generally goes from adults to each-other and to children and rarely in the other direction. It was a very poor rationale for closing schools, especially elementary schools. These kids have missed out on critical milestones in social and psychological development that far outweigh any known risk they face from COVID.
> They are basically a tunnel for spreading from one family to another
This wasn't and generally hasn't been the case for children under 12 as the aforementioned research points out. Spread generally goes from adults to each-other and to children and rarely in the other direction. It was a very poor rationale for closing schools, especially elementary schools. These kids have missed out on critical milestones in social and psychological development that far outweigh any known risk they face from COVID.