Has any country found a significant risk to children?
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- Thread starter Treetop Flyer
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Hold on a minute. So the NOSC can draw 6 vials of blood, lose the samples/ tell you you’re still on the dinq list, and require you to redraw 6 vials the next drill weekend, but the Navy can’t compel a sailor to provide a sample as part of a biological defense study?
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Look, this whole thing has been a cluster fuck of an overreaction. Been saying that since March. We're going to lose 200-400k Americans and there's nothing we can do about that.
Point is that article draws an invalid conclusion based on flawed analysis, and we shouldn't spread that dribble.
Looks like the virus ain't just going away as it warms up, or as states open up from Arizona and Arkansas to Texas.
The risk has fortunately proven to be low to most children but they can still be carriers of the virus and spread it to more vulnerable populations, not only that but schools don't just have kids in them.
The risk has fortunately proven to be low to most children but they can still be carriers of the virus and spread it to more vulnerable populations, not only that but schools don't just have kids in them.
That really is the thing. In a K-12 and on up through the university, there will be a lot of potential victims coming into contact with students. Always disruptive to have your professor die mid-semester.
I'm hoping they all (college students) spend the summer protesting, get it, and get herd immunity.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
If fast food joints and liquor stores are essential to stay open, school faculty can accept some risk to educate our children.
The teachers I know are ready to get back on it. The distance learning for the youngest kids in particular is a non-starter.
They are willing to take the risk.
exNavyOffRec
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I have several friends that are teachers, they said the same thing.
#we'reallinthis2gether... except you
"In these troubling times,.."
I am not seeing much analysis, or honesty in reporting, about increases in testing yielding the higher numbers. Don't know about some of the others, but my state has been on a testing blitz. Test more, find more positive cases. We hear it in other contexts, that an increase in this or that was due to changes in reporting criteria over previous years. I think I have heard mention of testing rates versus increases in positive case once.
Lately, local headlines screamed that a hospital was at capacity for covid patients. A dire warning of the increase in cases. But capacity is just 8 people for that hospital based on ventilator requirements. And it was just one hospital out of many. Also, no mention of the number of patients in covid intensive care before hitting capacity or any historical data. They could have been running between 6 and 7 for more than a month. But hit 8 and it is scary headlines.
Lately, local headlines screamed that a hospital was at capacity for covid patients. A dire warning of the increase in cases. But capacity is just 8 people for that hospital based on ventilator requirements. And it was just one hospital out of many. Also, no mention of the number of patients in covid intensive care before hitting capacity or any historical data. They could have been running between 6 and 7 for more than a month. But hit 8 and it is scary headlines.
You aren't looking hard enough, a quick search yielded this article:
An ABC News analysis of New York Times data found that new positive cases, hospitalizations and deaths had all increased in Arizona. While testing in the state also increased, so did the rate of positive tests. A high positivity rate can be a sign that a state is only testing its sickest patients and failing to cast a net wide enough to accurately capture community transmission, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Thanks. I had missed that. That is what we should see/hear in almost every report on case increases where testing is being blitzed. In my state the vast majority of the test locations require symptoms, so it stands to reason you are going to find a higher percentage of positive tests, as noted above.