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Is It Safe to Reopen Schools? The empirical evidence and a growing body of scientific work say yes. My piece via @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949
Researchers and European authorities said the absence of any notable clusters of infection in reopened elementary schools so far suggested that children aren’t significant spreaders of the new #coronavirus in society. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=stdaf4e28d92d246bba294624f013238d4
Denmark became the first Western country to reopen schools on April 15; infections among all age groups have been decreasing since.
“Our interpretation is that it may be that the children aren’t that important for the spread of infection,” @TyraTgv said. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st55853520b7754878b8e799576bf8722b
“Our interpretation is that it may be that the children aren’t that important for the spread of infection,” @TyraTgv said. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st55853520b7754878b8e799576bf8722b
In Norway, the government won’t close schools again even if the number of #coronavirus cases starts rising in the country because there have been no negative consequences from reopening schools on April 20, said Education Minister @gurimelby Melby https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st55853520b7754878b8e799576bf8722b
One reason for the absence of infections in schools could be that children below 10 have fewer of the receptors the virus uses to enter the body, said @ProfHGoossens , a medical microbiologist and coordinator of a#EU task force for researching #Covid_19 https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st55853520b7754878b8e799576bf8722b
The so-called ACE2 receptors in some cells in the upper respiratory tract that the novel coronavirus uses as a gateway only increases after the age of 10, @ProfHGoossens said. His advice to EU governments: Bring children up to the age of 12 back to school https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st55853520b7754878b8e799576bf8722b
Several studies showed that the key receptors used by #coronavirus to enter the body only increase after the age of 10 @ProfHGoossens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.19.049254v2.full.pdf
It is hypothesized that the lower risk among children is due to differential expression of ACE2, the receptor that severe #coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) uses for host entry. That would explain why kids don't get sick nor transmit the virus https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766524?utm_campaign=articlePDF&utm_medium=articlePDFlink&utm_source=articlePDF&utm_content=jama.2020.8707
Experience with influenza: children are susceptible to and can easily pass on to adults. @ProfHGoossens said the #Covid19 seemed to behave more like tuberculosis: children 5-10 years are less susceptible & hardly pass it on to others even if infected https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st55853520b7754878b8e799576bf8722b
Comparing influenza with #coronavirus related to children under 12 made authorities close schools, said @ProfHGoossens. Germany's @c_drosten advised closure based on Spanish Flu study; more and more evidence shows that could be a false equivalence: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st55853520b7754878b8e799576bf8722b
"The state of science at the moment doesn’t allow for any real conclusions about how much children contribute to the spread of the virus…(different assessments make) it especially difficult to make political decisions.” German Health Minister @jensspahn https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949?shareToken=st82934789867b45289c08f1850f708a31
Three weeks after reopening schools for about 100,000 children, Quebec has only registered over 40 cases (including adults). Premier François Legault said he considers the reopening a “great success” so far https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-more-than-40-covid-19-cases-identified-in-quebec-schools-since/
SARS-CoV-2 transmission in children in schools appears considerably less than seen for other respiratory viruses,
such as influenza. In contrast to influenza, data from both virus & antibody testing to date suggest that children are
not the primary drivers http://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/NCIRS%20NSW%20Schools%20COVID_Summary_FINAL%20public_26%20April%202020.pdf
such as influenza. In contrast to influenza, data from both virus & antibody testing to date suggest that children are
not the primary drivers http://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/NCIRS%20NSW%20Schools%20COVID_Summary_FINAL%20public_26%20April%202020.pdf
