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Re:Age-stratified infection fatality rate of Covid-19 in the... by kmoser on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:44AM (#34704583)
> I read this to also mean that the risks to adolescents did not warrant school closures

I'm not saying there's an easy answer, but arguments to keep schools open because adolescents (the students) may be in a lower risk pool tend to gloss over the fact that teachers and administrators are often older adults, who are more at risk.

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Re:Age-stratified infection fatality rate of Covid-19 in the... by runamok on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:07AM (#34705099)
Every child is attached to a minimum of 1 adult on average. And they are very unlikely to be particularly adept at not acquiring whatever bug is going around let alone something as infectious as covid. So to me that was always the point. One infected kid leads to all kids being infected which leads to all parents getting infected, etc.

The R naught number was very high event for the early strains: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/r0-covid-19-virus-key-metric-o...

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