North Carolina - #inschoolcovid

@DrZoeHyde https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1348084336109756424
#kidsandcovid tonight - starting in Ireland and hoping things get better there soon. Check tweet - now we can't say that these two things are related but we'd be kind of silly not to at least suspect it?

Encyclopedia Brown And The Case Of The Crazy Curve https://twitter.com/Paul_Gibbons220/status/1348368591058595841?s=19
Think that the United States or your state is unique in how badly they're running things in schools and in general? Check the replies to this tweet.

Misery does NOT love company in this case. But there sure is a lot of it. https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1348327514813259779?s=20
Massachusetts: WE ARE SEEING OVERALL AN INCREASED NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS WHO ARE TESTING POSITIVE. CONSISTENT W/ NUMBERS EVERYWHERE.

I'm not yelling, you're yelling. Sorry it's from a transcript. So if all cases are up it's ok for kids! Great.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-children-s-doctor-on-extended-covid-19-capacity-restrictions/35155885#
Finally: Swiss school closures cut Covid spread study (not yet reviewed) 3rd overall in reducing mixing/mobility

School closures reduce mobility, which then reduces new cases of COVID

They analysed 1.5 billion movements in Swiss telecomm data

Article:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-swiss-school-closures-covid.html
What we know about the spread of Covid among children — and whether shutting schools reduces the risk

Includes some of that Swiss study.

And a great quote to embroider on a pillow from @dgurdasani1

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/coronavirus-children-and-schools-a-guide-on-what-we-know-so-far.html
Getting kids to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trials: The difficulties explained

It has been four weeks ongoing, we only recruited about 800 subjects in the trial.

That, compared to recruiting 800 subjects / day for vaccine trials involving adults. âŹ‡ïž
https://www.wlwt.com/article/getting-kids-to-participate-in-covid-19-vaccine-trials-the-difficulties-explained/35197056
Call the Vatican! New study on COVID transmission in NC schools shows no reported child-to-adult transmission

You know what? I'm tired. Is this that ABC group?

I'm going to leave this here and if I have more patience I'll look at it. You can enjoy it!

https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/01/new-study-on-covid-transmission-in-nc-schools-shows-no-reported-child-to-adult-transmission/
Incidence of COVID-19 and % of positive test results among children, adolescents, young adults increased during the review period, with spikes in early summer, followed by a decline *and then steeply increased in October through December.*

Oh. Huh.

MMWR
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7003e1.htm?s_cid=mm7003e1_w
Finally: Will New COVID-19 Strains Mean More Cases in Schools? An Explainer

As always use the most precautions possible? Also this is evolving.

B117 1st found in the UK
B.1.351 identified in South Africa, B.1.1.248, identified in Japan were discussed. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/will-new-covid-19-strains-mean-more-cases-in-schools/2021/01
Clickety clickety to see how NC both has no child to adult transmission of COVID and also had a bad outbreak. https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1349563109686583298?s=19
#kidsandcovid "The schools are the cleanest they’ve ever been" (psst #COVIDisAirborne)

This NC school district from the report above & top of thread - with the outbreak - see tweet.

Img 1 oh they're bringing it
Img 2 bubble broke the min school opened

https://twitter.com/bethjmeow/status/1349864137560629257?s=19
Texas: so far 64,574 cases in kids in schools & 38,011 of cases in teachers. I don't know what their kids numbers are outside of school/totals.

This tweet is older but the website is up and running, you can read the reports: https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1312922660494548992?s=20
Web: https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/schools/texas-education-agency/
Dutch health minister says number of coronavirus cases with UK variant rises to 100, of which half are linked to school outbreaks

I believe these are elementary / primary school students?

Article 1: https://www.abc27.com/news/health/dutch-see-new-coronavirus-infections-fall-credit-lockdown/
2:
https://apnews.com/article/rotterdam-netherlands-england-coronavirus-pandemic-d2fa1ad0746851ff7b197e115a93f653 https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1349072548848398336?s=20
June 29 300 children with MISC
October 30 1,163
January 8 1,659

So still rare in comparison to 2+ million last reported total of #kidsandcovid

1 detailed info on CDC https://www.cdc.gov/mis-c/cases/index.html
2 article 6/20
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/29/nejm-inflammation-children-covid19-misc/
3 article 10/20
https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1325223962494832640?s=20
Meanwhile, "China, a country of 1.4 billion people, has reported an average of 109 new cases a day over the past week"

Approx 760 cases/7 days/22 billion people are in lock down

930 *reported* cases in schools alone/5 days in 1state/total pop 6.8 million https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/world/asia/china-covid-lockdown.html
Finally, Alabama: Over 300 DCS students in quarantine after COVID-19 exposure

"3.93 percent of students are now out of school while monitoring for COVID"

This is good for kids?

Pictured: our country taking the marshmallow test.

H/t @BrackinSoloman
https://www.dothanfirst.com/life-health/coronavirus/nearly-300-dcs-students-in-quarantine-dashboard-reports/amp
#kidsandcovid And college is back! San Diego 245 UCSD Students Have Tested Positive for COVID-19 Since Winter Quarter Began

About 7,300 students currently live on campus, with just 2% of class sections held in person during the winter quarter.

Article:
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/245-ucsd-students-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19-since-winter-quarter-began/2497104/
North Carolina Yadkin high school moves to remote learning after students test positive for virus

In case you haven't noticed if something rankles me, I don't let it go very well.

This is the state above with no kid to adult cases in schools. Right.
https://journalnow.com/news/local/yadkin-high-school-moves-to-remote-learning-after-students-test-positive-for-virus/article_ebfd07f4-5686-11eb-ad11-77deef9c9c59.html
Louisiana Overall, 1,104 students have tested + since the school year began/ 310 occurring after the return from Christmas break.

542 employees/150 after break.

They seem to be trying but 6 feet 15 minutes and I'll turn into a princess!
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_17e5fefa-574c-11eb-92e0-774fa8718d54.html
Chicago: COVID-19 cluster developing at CPS school, forcing 8 into quarantine in 1st week back, officials say

Welcome back!

https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2021/1/13/22230069/covid-19-cluster-cps-public-schools-mccutcheon-elementary
#kidsandcovid starting with hospitalizations in your area. Something good to know and someone with some brain power could probably take a look at that information and schools operating in person and figure some stuff out. My brain is full this week.

https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1350450195386032136?s=19
Wow US: As of January 7, nearly 2.3 million children have tested + for COVID-19 since pandemic onset. About 171,000 new child COVID-19 cases reported last week.

This from American Pediatric Association who said back to school is safe. No it's not. Yes it is.

Mini Thread 1/
Summary of Findings (data available as of 1/7/21) :

Cumulative Number of Child COVID-19 Cases*
2,299,666 total child COVID-19 cases reported, and children represented 12.5% (2,299,666/18,463,319) of all cases

Overall rate: 3,055 cases per 100,000 children in the population

2/
Change in Child COVID-19 Cases*

171,079 new child COVID-19 cases were reported the past week from 12/31/20-1/7/21 (2,128,587 to 2,299,666)

Over two weeks, 12/24/20-1/7/21, there was a 15% increase in child COVID-19 cases (298,985 new cases (2,000,681 to 2,299,666))

3/
Testing (10 states reported)*

Children made up between 6.0%-17.8% of total state tests, and between 7.1%-25.9% of children tested were tested positive

(Hope all the tests are ones that work in kids)

4/
Hospitalizations (24 states, NYC reported)* Children were 1.2%-2.8% of total reported hospitalizations, between 0.2%-3.1% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in hospitalization

*Note: Data rep cumulative counts since states began reporting; All data prelim subj to change

5
Mortality (42 states and NYC reported)*

Children were 0.00%-0.20% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 13 states reported zero child deaths

In states reporting, 0.00%-0.07% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in death

More: https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/
End
Take a few minutes to digest all of that. Then take what? A Pepcid? Tums? A hit of acid?

Then look north for a couple of tweets: https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1350083352318062592?s=20
And this here:

https://twitter.com/a_longhurst/status/1350290258227675142?s=20

We are all Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes is COVID.
Europe’s Schools Are Closing Again on Concerns They Spread Covid-19

Countries are abandoning pledges to keep classrooms open as concerns mount over children’s capacity to pass on the virus

A thread from @yaneerbaryam https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1350459944433315840?s=20
Finally, you're going to need a bigger Tums to read this. It might be worth it?

https://twitter.com/SiccoVanHoegee/status/1350535599640498176?s=20

The logic here - schools help herd immunity by >cases, that was used both here and there and the Netherlands (follow @SiccoVanHoegee for more) means that #SchoolsSpreadCovid.
#kidsandcovid here's a doctor who deals with lungs - so he knows what they look like after COVID. He's got an idea about schools:

https://twitter.com/VinGuptaMD/status/1350933713232781319?s=19
171,079 new child COVID cases were reported from 12/31/20-1/7/21 (2,128,587 to 2,299,666)

Perhaps he's right!
2,299,666 total child COVID-19 cases again, from last night and the APA as of 1/7/21:

Cumulative Number of Child COVID-19 Children represented 12.5% (2,299,666/18,463,319) of all cases

Overall rate: 3,055 cases per 100,000 children in the population

See above for more and link
And in Ontario, Canada: https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1350957043528699905?s=20
Complicit: Congratulations @AmerAcadPeds You're front and center in the Blaze.

Because before they released the latest data, in order to ingratiate themselves (I'm assuming) with the incoming admin they said get back in school, say the pledge and get COVID like a good American!
Good enough to repeat: “In the 2nd wave we acquired much more evidence that schoolchildren are almost equally, if not more infected by SARS-CoV-2 than others,“ said Antoine Flahault, Director University of Geneva’s Institute of Global Health from https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/1350694350427205634?s=20
New Montreal study - schools a vector in COVID transmission.

https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1348799479265206272?s=19
Finally: Biden’s top economic advisor demands that “schools open” so parents “can get back to work”
From @BryanDyne

Lots and lots of long sighs reading that

Article:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/15/dees-j15.html
#kidsandcovid tonight starts with a thread from Dr. Theresa Chapple. Starts with where we are at, where we need to go, and what we should do until we get there.

https://twitter.com/Theresa_Chapple/status/1351024288187494407?s=19
Misunderstanding #kidsandcovid data

People w/large platforms sharing incorrect information & thank goodness for those who correct them so nicely and so well. @dgurdasani1 doing what's desperately needed now in the trenches @ this stage of the pandemic. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1351092571435655173?s=19
Here is an account for Long COVID in kids. This makes me sad.

More cases, more kids who will be experiencing short-term crisis or long-term impacts.

This study is in these threads somewhere or take a look here: https://twitter.com/long_recovery/status/1350760900458913793?s=19
"We're Playing Roulette" New Study Explores Risk Played By Children in COVID Spread

"Extrapolated, that means there was an infected child sitting in about every third to fourth classroom in November,” said Wagner." https://twitter.com/WikiDocJames/status/1351190871006470146?s=19
"Without knowing they were infected.” A girl with no cough or sneeze, a boy who doesn't even have a runny nose - unidentified virus spreaders.

Read the whole thing: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-study-explores-risk-played-by-children-in-covid-spread-a-b0a90b6f-1d21-41e8-a2d0-13751aa3ce09-amp?__twitter_impression=true
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