Children as contagious as adults, says German research
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corona24.newsPosted Apr 30, 2020, 10:06 PM UTC
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My expert opinion is that whatever my kids get, either my wife or me get same, but 3 times worse.
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It's worth checking out the conclusions in the actual Berlin study. They are a lot more nuanced then—surprise—this news article:
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Really? Colour me surprised, I thought they had special powers that meant they couldn’t spread the disease as ScoMo’s BFF Jesus told him.
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These are the sorts of articles that people read and suddenly think they have more knowledge than govt epidemiologists and infectious diseases experts
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The lead researcher on the study is Christian Drosten, who was part of the team that originally isolated SARS, and developed the first COVID-19 test that was adopted by the WHO. He's the chief virologist at the Charité Hospital in Berlin and is one the key scientists leading Germany's fight against the pandemic
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This may not be peer reviewed yet, but the lead researcher on the study is Christian Drosten, who was part of the team that originally isolated SARS, and developed the first COVID-19 test that was adopted by the WHO. He's the chief virologist at the Charité Hospital in Berlin and is one the key scientists leading Germany's fight against the pandemic. He is certainly in favor of the schools reopening as soon as possible, but—for obvious reasons—wants science to lead the way.
Here's I think the actual article: https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/m_cc05/virologie-ccm/dateien_upload/Weitere_Dateien/analysis-of-SARS-CoV-2-viral-load-by-patient-age.pdf
Final paragraph:
The viral loads observed in the present study, combined with earlier findings of similar attack rate between children and adults (2 ) , suggest that transmission potential in schools and kindergartens should be evaluated using the same assumptions of infectivity as for adults. There are reasons to argue against the notion of adult-like infectivity in children, such as the fact that asymptomatic children do not spread the virus by coughing, and have smaller exhaled air volume than adults. However, there are other arguments that speak in favour of transmission, such as the greater physical activity and closer social engagement of children. We recommend collecting and evaluating more viral load data from testing laboratories to achieve more robust statistical assessments and independent confirmation of the present results. Based on the absence of any statistical evidence for a different viral load profile in children found in the present study, we have to caution against an unlimited re-opening of schools and kindergartens in the present situation, with a widely susceptible population and the necessity to keep transmission rates low via non-pharmaceutical interventions. Children may be as infectious as adults.
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Aren’t year 12 students adults anyway ? >18+
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Clickbait
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Body of article seems to contradict headline
It seems like your quote is from a different study.
Not sure why the headline decided to only include the more outlandish claim. Not too mention from an unreviewed article and we've seen so many studies get retracted during the review process. Definitely clickbait
This may not be peer reviewed yet, but the lead researcher on the study is Christian Drosten, who was part of the team that originally isolated SARS, and developed the first COVID-19 test that was adopted by the WHO. He's the chief virologist at the Charité Hospital in Berlin and is one the key scientists leading Germany's fight against the pandemic. He is certainly in favor of the schools reopening as soon as possible, but—for obvious reasons—wants science to lead the way.
Here's I think the actual article: https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/m_cc05/virologie-ccm/dateien_upload/Weitere_Dateien/analysis-of-SARS-CoV-2-viral-load-by-patient-age.pdf
Final paragraph:
The viral loads observed in the present study, combined with earlier findings of similar attack rate between children and adults (2 ) , suggest that transmission potential in schools and kindergartens should be evaluated using the same assumptions of infectivity as for adults. There are reasons to argue against the notion of adult-like infectivity in children, such as the fact that asymptomatic children do not spread the virus by coughing, and have smaller exhaled air volume than adults. However, there are other arguments that speak in favour of transmission, such as the greater physical activity and closer social engagement of children. We recommend collecting and evaluating more viral load data from testing laboratories to achieve more robust statistical assessments and independent confirmation of the present results. Based on the absence of any statistical evidence for a different viral load profile in children found in the present study, we have to caution against an unlimited re-opening of schools and kindergartens in the present situation, with a widely susceptible population and the necessity to keep transmission rates low via non-pharmaceutical interventions. Children may be as infectious as adults.
Woops I fell prey then. Was so logical I didn't read the article. Confirmation bias.
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I don't think anyone is arguing that children get as sick as adults. The question is whether schools and kindergartens could act as breeding grounds for the disease for the wider population—just as happens with seasonal flu.
Yeah well, there weren't any known cases of human to human transmission for a month or two aswell.