Re-opening Schools in the era of COVID

Tsing Tao said:
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Once again the U.K. and Europe are following WHO guidance when the prevailing rate of Covid in a community is low (under 5% positive test rate) then school classes can be held safely in person with minimal mitigation. When the prevailing rate of COVID rises to above the 5% positive test rate for 7 days then schools are generally shut down in a community/region and children go to remote learning.

This is very different than the U.S. where we are trying to hold K-12 classes in-person with a positive community test rate above 18%. Schools need to use some form of mitigation if they want to stay in session for more than a week in this very high Covid spread environment -- the best mitigation is masks to stop spread in the classroom.

All you have to do is look at the different experiences of K-12 schools which started the fall semester in the U.S. with masks with those who started without masks to see the glaring difference. Schools that started with masks are generally still in session without a level of Covid problems leading to school closures and/ or mass quarantines & cases.

The practical reality however is that if your community spread is above 15% then it is just a matter of time until Covid drives your schools into having to go remote. Masks are buying you time -- after all the objective should be to keep children in-school for as long as possible to improve their education -- trying to minimize the time children spend remote. It is clear in-person education works better for K-12 children rather than remote education -- if masks allow this to happen for a longer period of time then every reasonable parent should be supporting using masks.

Of course, I will note this Twitter post is from Kyle Lamb who is a huge purveyor of Covid misinformation who was hired by Ron DeSantis. Do we really need to outlines Kyle's history again?
 
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