What we all knew: Covid doesn't affect kids at all

[viet4lifeOC]

Did you read the article...or various articles from other sources?

One of the distinctions that researchers saw early on was that children spread the flu, but did not spread covid19.

The article I posted was of a 9 years old boy who was POSITIVE for Covid19 and SYPTOMATIC. they contacted and quarantine 174 people who had direct contact with the boy. This included his siblings and people from three different ski resorts (where they visited during the time period). None of those he contacted contracted covid19.

These early findings was cited as reasons why Sweden chose to keep their schools open for kids under 16.

[Creampuff]

The high risk groups, symptomatic patients, working adults etc. are the ones that are receiving most of the tests. No one really is grabbing their kids and taking them to testing centers as that would almost be self defeating. The one segment where kids are being brought to testing centers is when there are other family members who are positive or symptomatic.

The numbers are not showing too many positives. It could be because they are staying home more than the adults. Don't know. It does bring up a good question though, are kids bad vectors for Covid19.

I hear often, "it only is common sense, that kids transmit xxxx because they are petri dished". It goes both ways for conspiracy theorists and the Karens in the world, we can't use the common sense argument. We need data. For now, the focus is on the other demographics. When the dust settles, I would like to see if children are worse vectors or the same. We'll see. From the pool of pediatric patients I have seen so far that have been tested, there are not too many positives.

[Aces and 8s]

Ok I changed "Don't catch" to "Don't suffer from." This is consistent with my thread title.

Except it's not consistent. Your thread title is very CNN click baity.

"What we all knew: Covid doesn't affect kids at all"

That is your thread title as of RIGHT now and is factually incorrect.

[viet4lifeOC]

The high risk groups, symptomatic patients, working adults etc. are the ones that are receiving most of the tests. No one really is grabbing their kids and taking them to testing centers as that would almost be self defeating. The one segment where kids are being brought to testing centers is when there are other family members who are positive or symptomatic.

The numbers are not showing too many positives. It could be because they are staying home more than the adults. Don't know. It does bring up a good question though, are kids bad vectors for Covid19.

I hear often, "it only is common sense, that kids transmit xxxx because they are petri dished". It goes both ways for conspiracy theorists and the Karens in the world, we can't use the common sense argument. We need data. . For now, the focus is on the other demographics. When the dust settles, I would like to see if children are worse vectors or the same. We'll see. From the pool of pediatric patients I have seen so far that have been tested, there are not too many positives.

Agree.

It's why I don't accept the common sense belief that "Stay In Place and social distancing worked...because more people would've died without them in place." It's common sense, but data shows otherwise.

[Endless]

Did you read the article...or various articles from other sources?

One of the distinctions that researchers saw early on was that children spread the flu, but did not spread covid19.

The article I posted was of a 9 years old boy who was POSITIVE for Covid19 and SYPTOMATIC. they contacted and quarantine 174 people who had direct contact with the boy. This included his siblings and people from three different ski resorts (where they visited during the time period). None of those he contacted contracted covid19.

These early findings was cited as reasons why Sweden chose to keep their schools open for kids under 16.

You can argue all day long that the test he got was a false positive (he had influenza A or B or the Massachusetts strain for all you know) since at the time of his test the actual accuracy of the test wasn't high. You can play both sides here.

The other thing of note is children typically havent seen harsh realities like elderly folks. One of the many reasons is that most are vaccinated for several diseases and one of the vaccines is the OPV. We saw it in a UK study and Dr. Gallo. Look up the Polio Vaccine and COVID19.

https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/april-2020/can-an-oral-polio-vaccine-stop-covid-19.php

BTW I am a registered Republican and the Democrats can suck a dick. All of them. We need to open parts of this country. Bottom line. Enough is enough.
We need to clean house in Augusta and Sacramento. Both states.

[DrjonesUSA]

The all-knowing CDC finally admits the obvious: kids don't really catch suffer from the covid. (Hence all school lockdowns are worthless...)

To be perfectly fair, the reasoning for the school closures was because ......you ready for this...... most children have parents.

They didn't want the kids to spread it amongst themselves, then take it home and infect mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, aunts & uncles, neighbors, etc.

Sorry, couldn't resist being a smart-@$$.

[balgor]

There's a case of a nine years-old boy who tested positive for covid19 and was symptomatic. They did contact tracing of 172 people who had direct contact eighth the boy (including siblings) and who weren't infected.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/boy-with-covid-19-did-not-transmit-disease-to-more-than-170-contacts

There's a reason why Sweden didn't closed schools for kids under 16.


But...hey...let's ignore everything since the initial numbers coming from China, WHO, models, and Italy.

Nice anecdotal story, but a single case of anything proves nothing.

https://time.com/5623489/man-survives-niagara-falls/

See waterfalls aren't dangerous!

https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/skydiver-miraculously-survives-5000-foot-fall-after-parachute-malfunctions/

Parachutes are for whimps!


Now if you had data on 1000 kids, 1000 people going over Niagara falls and 1000 people skydiving without a parachute, then you can actually tell what is most likely to happen.

Kids spreading infections? Not enough data, one way or another but one data point is completely useless.

[HibikiR]

+1 for the asymptomatic carrier concern.

[The War Wagon]

What we all knew: Covid doesn't affect kids at all

Can't indoctrinate them to FEAR of BIG BRUDDA, without starting them YOUNG...

[357manny]

+1 for the asymptomatic carrier concern.

+1 here as well.
We have a 6 year old petri dish with a ponytail, and every time she got sick, it was from someone at her school.
Inevitably, me and my wife would get sick from whatever she brought home. Mother in law visits regularly and stays over for prolonged time frames, so she would also eventually get sick.

Stay at home policy while closing down the schools is worth it for us.