Kids more likely to get new strain...

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www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN28V2EV

Do you think this will mean school closures?

I think its inevitable

Not in Scotland, John Swinney truley believes schools are safe 🤔
Although to be honest I would rather teach my class in school than online any day.

What does this mean in terms of numbers of children getting really ill from it? Will this increase just because of the increased numbers? Or could it also make them more likely to become unwell vs other age groups?

Hope not. We will not cope if they do

@EachDubh

Not in Scotland, John Swinney truley believes schools are safe 🤔 Although to be honest I would rather teach my class in school than online any day.

Except the Scottish schools are closing for longer over Christmas and won't open until AT LEAST the 18th January?

@Lumene I’m not sure they know that yet as they seem to be using causation data to say that it seems children are more likely to be infected

I think it's not that children are more likely than adults, it's just not many adults at the moment spend hours at a time in a room together without masks or distancing.

If it's more infectious, it follows that children are more likely to get infected!

It’s more transmissible in general and kids are crammed in schools every day with no masks and no social distancing.

It’s not targeting kids, it’s taking advantage of the lack of protection given to children.

If this is the case, school staff will surely need more ppe and distancing to remain open.

Maybe this will bump teaching staff up the priority list for the vaccine.

The suggestion from SAGE was to vaccinate the kids.

Teachers really should be high priority, I don't understand why they aren't.

Not just the staff. Part of the problem is lack of effort to stop spread between kids too. There is virtually nothing in English schools except a bit of a nod to masks by wearing them in corridors.

We’ve tried doing nothing in schools for a term now. It hasn’t worked. Now we need to try and send kids back without making the same mistakes we’ve just made.

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

Maybe this will bump teaching staff up the priority list for the vaccine.

Who will they go in front of?

Maybe this will bump teaching staff up the priority list for the vaccine

Where do you think they should be? Displacing one of the categories of elderly, CEV or CV?
Or (for those not already covered by age or vulnerability) in a priority occupational category which is top of the U50s?

18:52Waxonwaxoff0

Hope not. We will not cope if they do.

True, much easier to risk them catching it

Teachers should be ahead of those on the list who can work from home.

SAGE might as well be disbanded if their suggestion to controlling the spread is to use a vaccine which there is no reason to believe reduces spread. This particular vaccine is only suitable to be used in people who are at higher risk of getting seriously ill from the vaccine rather than those at a higher risk of contracting it asymptomatically as there is no benefit from its use in the latter group.

In fact there is actually an argument that teachers and NHS professionals should be at the very bottom of the list for this particular vaccine due to the possibility that the increased asymptomatic spread which may well be associated with it would cause even bigger problems if these particular groups had it.

Aren't children more likely to catch any virus at the moment, since large numbers of children are mixing in schools. Adults aren't mixing in most places at all, and definitely not in large numbers.

Remember the NHS wouldn't test children for covid initially anyway. Not sure the data is that informative really.

Who’d have thought it, eh...

@Imsosorryalan75 I cannot work if school closes so I will not be able to pay my bills or feed my child. So yes, it is a major issue.

Teaching is the only job that I can think of where you are not allowed to wear protection. Plus you’re surrounded by hundreds of children with no protection too. Perhaps that’s not one reason to move them up the list for the vaccine?

It’s inevitable now. I think there are two reasons:

Children and school staff are not protected. We are the only country apart from the Netherlands (who have closed schools) to run our schools like it. No safety measures, no masks for the majority of the time. Also our schools are overcrowded.

Secondly, viruses mutate. It is quite possible, that with everyone happy to let it run through schools and turning a blind eye. It has mutated to attach to the receptors of children more easily.

It’s probably a mixture of both. They need to find out because the continent is rightly scared of importing a version which is more prevalent in children.