Texas and Florida see rise in child hospitalisations due to coronavirus as battles over student masking continue Texas has fewer than 100 pediatric ICU beds available and childhood coronavirus cases are up 5.5 per cent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...pitalisations-coronavirus-masks-b1914397.html
It's not only about the risk to students... it's about the risk to the staff. Fifteen employees of Miami school system die from coronavirus in 10 days https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/miami-school-teacher-deaths-covid-b1914371.html
Yeah show me the academic study that shows that masks in schools are effective. I will save you the time and trouble, there isnt one. Such a study was conducted and its results were inconclusive. Somehow the main stream media missed that study. I wonder why.
I thought this vaccine was so great. It is so great that people are claiming it needs to be mandated. If the vaccine is available and the staff can get it and it is so flawless, WHATS THE RISK?
Actually a large number of studies showing masks are effective in schools have already been posted in these threads. Here are some of them again - Go read them. CDC Study examined 169 schools in Georgia and found that schools with student mask requirements had a 37% lower COVID rate among students than schools without mandates. This study was from late 2020 before Delta was prevalent. Mask Use and Ventilation Improvements to Reduce COVID-19 Incidence in Elementary Schools — Georgia, November 16–December 11, 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e1.htm Summary What is already known about this topic? Kindergarten through grade 5 schools educate and address the students’ physical, social, and emotional needs. Preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools is imperative for safe in-person learning. What is added by this report? COVID-19 incidence was 37% lower in schools that required teachers and staff members to use masks and 39% lower in schools that improved ventilation. Ventilation strategies associated with lower school incidence included dilution methods alone (35% lower incidence) or in combination with filtration methods (48% lower incidence). What are the implications for public health practice? Mask requirements for teachers and staff members and improved ventilation are important strategies in addition to vaccination of teachers and staff members that elementary schools could implement as part of a multicomponent approach to provide safer, in-person learning environments. (More at above url) Research Finds Masks Can Prevent COVID-19 Transmission in Schools “With masking, the schools clearly can safely deliver face-to-face education for children and adults" https://today.duke.edu/2021/06/research-finds-masks-can-prevent-covid-19-transmission-schools The widespread use of masks in schools can effectively prevent COVID-19 transmission and provide a safe learning environment, two Duke scholars said Wednesday. Danny Benjamin, M.D., and Kanecia Zimmerman, M.D., were co-chairs of the Duke-led ABC Science Collaborative, which issued a new report Wednesday showing that North Carolina schools were highly successful in preventing the transmission of COVID-19 within school buildings. The report found in part that masks effectively prevented COVID-19 transmission even without physical distancing in schools and on buses. Benjamin and Zimmerman spoke to reporters Wednesday in a virtual media briefing. Watch the briefing on YouTube. Read a news story about the collaborative's findings on Duke Health's website. Here are excerpts: (More at above url) Researchers from NC State, UNC study effectiveness of masks, random testing in schools https://www.wavy.com/news/north-car...ctiveness-of-masks-random-testing-in-schools/ Aug 19, 2021 A local research team is looking at how COVID-19 spreads in school settings and how much mask-wearing and testing can help. The study found without masks and random testing, more than 75 percent of students would get COVID-19 over a semester. The study looked at “susceptible students,” those who are not vaccinated, and did not already have COVID-19. Maria Mayorga, a personalized medicine professor at North Carolina State University, is part of the research team. This is what the study found for elementary school students, who are too young to be vaccinated. “By the end of the semester if we do not mask, 90 percent of the students who were not already infected would become infected with the virus,” Mayorga said. “So that’s way too many students and it would not be possible for the students to stay in school, probably something would happen before then where they would be sent home or to a virtual environment.” Graphs from the study show masks reduce it to around 50 percent of students, and masks combined with random testing reduces it to just under 25 percent of elementary school students susceptible to the virus contracting COVID-19. That’s without going virtual due to outbreaks. Those numbers are lower in older grades because the study accounts for vaccinated students and those who already had COVID-19 (listed as incoming protection). “If you introduce the mask requirements in the school you can reduce the number of infections by more than 50 percent,” Mayorga said. Most central North Carolina school districts now have mask mandates. This study has not been peer-reviewed. The team is comprised of researchers from N.C. State, UNC-Chapel Hill, Eastern Carolina University, and Georgia Tech. You can read the full study here and see a slideshow of the presentation here. Mayorga said the next step in their research is measuring the effect school mask policies can have on communities. =================================== Research done in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Utah and Missouri has shown mask mandates effectively stymie coronavirus transmission rates in schools.
Since "Tsing Tao" is not a teacher, he's ok with this. Most Covid Deniers are basically selfish people who turn their backs on their community under duress. They do things like instruct their children to not wear masks at school. They post nonsense online about Covid while thousands die in their state including some children. They pronounce that Long Covid isn't real in children or young adults. They don't recognize when it's time to stfu they misread the whole situation badly. Now if the vast majority were vaccinated, some risks might be more manageable. But they can't even do that part right. Even worse, they campaign for other people to follow their lead.
Wall Street Journal: “The recent spread of the highly contagious Delta variant has thrown back-to-school plans into disarray, temporarily driving tens of thousands of students back to virtual learning or pausing instruction altogether.” “The shutdowns are hitting classrooms especially hard in the Deep South, where most schools were among the first to open, a possible warning of what’s to come as the rest of the nation’s students start school this month…” “It is difficult to assess precisely how badly schools have been hit by the virus, partly because of variations in data reporting. But according to an analysis of the available data from state health departments, the number of infections in school-age children has climbed more rapidly in states where students have been back in school for weeks.” HuffPost: 15 Miami-Dade public school staff die of Covid-19 in just 10 days.
So in a few mere weeks since re-opening over 1,000 schools in 31 states have closed due to Covid. What do most of them have in common - No masks. States where schools have already opened seeing spike in child COVID-19 cases https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio...ve-opened-seeing-spike-in-child-covid19-cases A new study shows that mixing the contagious Delta variant and students heading back to school results in an increase in cases among children. Because of the jump in cases, tens of thousands of students have been sent into virtual learning formats. Since class began in late July, at least 1,000 schools across 31 states have closed because of Covid-19, the Wall Street Journal reported. Burbio, a Pelham, New York data service, is monitoring school closures nationwide for 1,200 districts, including the 200 largest. Schools in the Deep South are being hit the hardest, where schools were among the first to open. However, some are looking at the results as a sign of what is to come nationwide. In Mississippi, 13,715 students have tested positive for the virus. Most schools in the state started the new academic year in early August. As of Aug. 31, more than 20,000 students have been sent into quarantine for each of the past three weeks, according to the state health department. In New Mexico, nearly 10% of the state's 317,000 students have spent time in quarantine, while in Georgia, more than half of the state's outbreaks for the week that ended Aug. 27 were linked to schools, according to both state's health departments. In schools where safety protocols are being followed, transmission rates are lower, leaving students in the classroom, not missing out on more valuable education time. Schools are suffering from not only outbreaks but mass quarantines and staff shortages. This has forced districts to release contingency plans reluctantly. Some school administrators are responding to the sporadic outbreaks with measures like masking mandates, frequent testing, and vaccine mandates for employees. "We're not scared of the future necessarily," Cristen Maddux, the spokeswoman for Indian River County School District in Florida, said to the Journal. The district was forced to temporarily shut two elementary schools amid outbreaks. "The closures have gone very smoothly, and we're just going to take it one day at a time." While examining the impact of COVID-19 on schools is complicated with variations in reporting, the Journal found that the number of infections in school-age children has climbed more rapidly in states that have had students in person for weeks. Throughout the entirety of the country the Delta variant has continued to cause a spike in new cases, similar to the winter spike. A CDC study released last week shows the Delta variant's effects can rip through a school where safety protocols are not followed, shutting it down and sending students to distance learning. One Californian elementary school saw an unvaccinated, unmasked teacher with the virus spread COVID-19 to more than half of the students in the teacher's primary classroom in late May. Cases from six students in separate grades, four parents, and another four siblings of students were all linked back to the one teacher for a total of 26 cases. With infections continuing to rise and some districts refusing to put safety protocols in place, the number of school-age kids infected with the virus continues to grow, and the number of school closures will continue to rise. Elizabeth Stuart, the associate dean for education at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shared that one-way mass closures and quarantines can be minimized is through "test and stay." The protocol was first used in Massachusetts in which asymptomatic people exposed to a confirmed case take rapid tests daily to monitor for infection instead of being confined to their homes, Stuart said. "I think that's the kind of creative and technological solution that we're going to need," said Dr. Stuart, "because that balances the Covid risk with the desire to keep kids in in-person learning."
so all the lockdowns all the vaccinations... and we still have covid.. and you morons have not learned anything.. Vaccines wane and this virus spreads whether the kids wear mask or not.. all the shit you posted about masks and classrooms is models and reports and bullshit. Its a virus... it spreads... it kills the unhealthy. Its the flu for the healthy. start looking at real data and real science instead of lying about shit and making things up. We have to protect the high risk... its not fucking magical. Its a virus that hammers unhealthy immune systems..
This group as you say are selfish and turn their backs on the community Huge Number of Hospital Workers Still Unvaccinated