So much for kids don't get Covid

[loveofourlord]

Kids get COVID-19 , By family members or family members friends. Most kids don't die. I really don't get how people thought kids don't get COVID-19. But kids lick, cough and touch everything thing, like store windows and every thing you will buy . I've seen kids cough on things at the stores. If a child has a family member , that has a cold , flu or COVID-19 . We're screwed. Kids shouldn't be allowed in stores at all. Or in public places at all .

if it involves banning them from theaters might be worth the risk j/k, but yeah it all sucks. But hey we got to get those kids incubating...I mean educated.

 

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Kellyanne Conway on US shattering COVID-19 daily case record, her role in 2020 campaign

"Best things we can do, close indoor bars, wear masks and reopen schools" Kellyanne Conway

 

[Caliban]

Kellyanne Conway on US shattering COVID-19 daily case record, her role in 2020 campaign

"Best things we can do, close indoor bars, wear masks and reopen schools" Kellyanne Conway

Kellyanne Conway has been horrible for education. I can't wait until she is gone.

 

[ZNP]

Kellyanne Conway has been horrible for education. I can't wait until she is gone.

I get it, some people just don't like kids.

 

[Caliban]

I get it, some people just don't like kids.

I am a teacher--love kids. Conway is bad for education.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Right, that is why I qualified the statement with "or any well paying career." I have a friend who makes 300 G's a year writing story lines for a video game company. She has an English degree.

She must be a senior designer/writer on a major AAA franchise, of which there are fewer jobs than there are playing in the NFL.

 

[Caliban]

She must be a senior designer/writer on a major AAA franchise, of which there are fewer jobs than there are playing in the NFL.

No, she works from home and writes plot lines. She cannot code. It's just that her work is valuable for creating frameworks for the engineers to work with. She also works for an independent gamming company in Canada. She lives in California.

 

[iluvatar5150]

No, she works from home and writes plot lines. She cannot code. It's just that her work is valuable for creating frameworks for the engineers to work with. She also works for an independent gamming company in Canada. She lives in California.

I also work in the games industry and I understand what writers do. $300k+ pay scales are pretty rare, especially at an indie unless you have royalties on something that takes off.

 

[Caliban]

I also work in the games industry and I understand what writers do. $300k+ pay scales are pretty rare, especially at an indie unless you have royalties on something that takes off.

That sounds like a great career. I don't know how her benefits package is structured, but she lives well and writes for a living. She started out wanting to write novels and because she was a gammer, she got hooked up with a small company out of Canada. It's a luck move, but it wouldn't have happened if she didn't have a strong education and writing background.

 

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White House blocks CDC from testifying on reopening schools

While Donald Trump's administration demands schools reopen within weeks despite surging coronavirus infections across the US, the White House has blocked officials at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from testifying to Congress on plans on school safety plans.

CDC Director Robert Redfield has "has testified on the Hill at least four times over the last three months," according to a White House statement. "We need our doctors focused on the pandemic response."

In a statement, House Education and Labour committee chairman Bobby Scott called the move "alarming" and condemned the administrations "strategy of prioritising politics over science" and its "devastating impact on our country throughout this pandemic."

"It should not make that same mistake when it comes to reopening schools," he said.

 

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Texas deaths hit record, schools get OK for virtual classes

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas on Friday gave public schools permission to keep campuses closed for more than 5 million students well into the fall as the state scrambles to contain one of the largest resurgences of the coronavirus in the country.

 

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Millions more children in the U.S. learned Friday that they're unlikely to return to classrooms full time in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic as death tolls reached new highs.

It came as many states — particularly in the Sunbelt — struggled to cope with the surge and governments worldwide tried to control fresh outbreaks. In a sign of how the virus is galloping around the globe, the World Health Organization reported nearly a quarter-million new infections in a single day.

In the U.S., teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients. The two most populous states each reported roughly 10,000 new cases and some of their highest death counts since the pandemic began. Big numbers in Florida, Arizona and other states also are helping drive the U.S. resurgence that's forcing states to rethink the school year.

Millions of kids told full return to school in fall unlikely

 

[LostMarbels]

It seems everything can contract covid. Even fruit has tested positive, and people that were never even tested get positive results in the mail.

 

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Can kids spread the coronavirus? 'Conclusively, without a doubt – yes,' experts say

Can kids spread the coronavirus? 'Conclusively, without a doubt – yes,' experts say

A compilation of studies and articles published in JAMA Pediatrics found most patients under the age of 18 with COVID-19, the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2, tend to have mild symptoms and fully recover within one to two weeks – quicker than most adults.

While this may alleviate some concerns, medical experts say parents shouldn’t let their guard down. Children can still be carriers of the virus and facilitate spread in their communities.

“I think the answer is conclusively, without a doubt – yes,” said Dr. Lara Shekerdemian, chief of critical care at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Surveillance screening, which is testing all children admitted to the hospital, has revealed a higher percentage of them carrying the virus and not showing any symptoms, she said.

The trend is consistent with data from Florida. About one-third of children tested in the state for COVID-19 returned positive results, which is higher than the overall statewide positivity rate of 11%, according to state data.

 

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Will Baron Trump go back to school? WH says 'that's a personal decision'

 

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Educators and school administrators are finding themselves caught between balancing the White House’s desire to reopen schools and the risks to public safety.

The driving force in any decision should be the rate of coronavirus transmission in a specific locality, one public health expert explained.

Read more: Here are the retailers requiring customers to wear face masks

“We all want to get our kids back to school — getting our kids back to school is so important,” Dr. Anne Rimoin, a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health, told Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade (video above). “That being said, we cannot do it in unsafe conditions. And if we have a very high level of transmission like we do here in Los Angeles, it is not safe to put kids back in school and to put teachers and staff in a position of potentially being exposed.”

Coronavirus: 'We cannot' put kids in schools 'if we have a very high level of transmission,' doctor warns

 

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A large new study from South Korea offers an answer: Children younger than age 10 transmit to others much less often than adults do, but the risk is not zero. And those between the ages of 10-19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do.

Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Study Finds

 

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Since May, coronavirus outbreaks have forced camps in Arkansas, Alabama and Texas to pause for the summer, while ones in Michigan, New York and Maine closed out of precaution. “Our preliminary projections estimate 19.5 million campers will miss out on in-person day and overnight camp programming this year due to the pandemic,” the American Camp Association (ACA) tells Yahoo Life.

'It takes just one case to cause an outbreak:' Why summer camps are seeing campers, staff fall ill during pandemic

 

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TOPLINE

Younger people aged 10 to 19 years old are more likely than other age groups to spread the coronavirus in their household, according to a large contact tracing study in South Korea soon to be published by the Centers for Disease Control, a concerning sign as U.S. school districts weigh whether to reopen for in-person classes in the fall.

KEY FACTS
The study is an early release of a forthcoming article in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a peer-reviewed journal published by the CDC.

Researchers followed 5,706 coronavirus patients from January 20 to March 27—when schools in South Korea were closed—who were the first to report COVID-19 symptoms in their household and traced all of their contacts to determine how the virus spread.

The study found that young people, between the ages of 10 to 19, were not often the first in their household to show symptoms—but when they were, 18.6% of their contacts contracted the disease, which is more than any other age group.



Young People Most Likely To Spread Coronavirus At Home, Large Study Finds

 

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The suit was filed by Kathryn Hammond, a teacher at Southwest Middle School; and Monique Bellefleur, a parent of three children enrolled in the school district.

Florida must delay reopening of public schools, lawsuit says