jmcmurry
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4 years ago Whoa. Yeah. So glad I pulled youngling out when I did. It still may not have been early enough. Sobering.
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jmcmurry
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4 years ago Whoa. Yeah. So glad I pulled youngling out when I did. It still may not have been early enough. Sobering.
There was a recent test in Germany that hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet which is showing some of the following:
Study:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v1
Non-medical summary: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-of-coronavirus-study-finds-but-most-are-likely-not-infectious-after-recovery-begins/
From CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/children-faq.html), “ The symptoms of COVID-19 are similar in children and adults. However, children with confirmed COVID-19 have generally presented with mild symptoms. Reported symptoms in children include cold-like symptoms, such as fever, runny nose, and cough. Vomiting and diarrhea have also been reported.“
So if you combine the fact that children tend to present with mild symptoms, which are fairly indistinguishable from pretty much all children at this time of year, with the German study finding that the virus is shed (contagious) at incredibly high rates very early on in the infection, usually before you realize you have it, children would be at a pretty high likelihood of spreading the virus because their symptoms are likely to take longer to recognize or never be recognized as COVID-19-related.
This is why schools/daycares/nurseries at churches, etc. being closed for a period of time is such a big deal.
Anyway, something important to look at.