I understand that there are a lot of strong feelings on this so hoping that we can limit this thread to facts and data (rather than emotions).
What (formal) evidence is there that teachers are at a greater risk than the general population?
What (formal) evidence is there that children are passing the infections to adults?
I've seen the data that educational institutes are associated with increased infection rates (though really unhelpful that the data isn't split between nursery/primary/secondary/tertiary) but that doesn't distinguish between the numbers of the pupils getting infected and the numbers of adults in those settings getting infected. In my head, if schools were responsible for the spread, you would expect to see (a) a higher incidence of C19 in teachers and (b) a higher incidence of C19 in the parents of school aged children. Is there data to back this up?
The only study I've found so far is one in Sweden (where schools stayed open throughout the spring) which gave a relative risk of between 0.7 and 1.1.
I'm really curious about this, and hoping that some epidemiologists are lurking and will post me some links to peer reviewed studies. (Disclaimer: I'm not a scientist but I can read and follow most scientific papers)
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WhatWillSantaBring · 02/11/2020 13:03
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