New study: "Over 70% of household COVID19 spread started with a child & In-person schools "also resulted in substantial spread". Wake up adults: Protect our kids & demand safe schools

Epidemiologist, health economist & co-founder of the World Health Network, Eric Feigl-Ding, called the pandemic before the WHO. He was one of the first entries in my SARS-CoV-2 pandemic "trusted sources database". 

His explainer below nails the extent to which parents have been misled & the ongoing harm to children, families & society as a result. It's time for the adults in the room to wake up, speak up & stand up for our children's right to breathe clean,SARS-C0V-2 biohazard free air in schools💪

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

Jun 2 • 6 tweets • 3 min read  Read on Twitter

⚠️Over 70% of household #COVID19 spread **started with a child**, says new study of 850,000 US households. Younger kids under 8 more likely source of transmission than kids 9-17. 📌In-person schools “also resulted in substantial spread”. Just the facts. 🧵
cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-…

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggestshttps://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests

2) study authors: "Once US schools reopened in fall 2020, children contributed more to inferred within-household transmission when they were in school, and less during summer and winter breaks, a pattern consistent for 2 consecutive school years."

Don’t shoot the messenger.

3) "Also, when the COVID-19 incidence is low, overall use of nonpharmaceutical interventions might decrease (READ: less use of masks in schools), leading to increased incidence of non–SARS-CoV-2 pathogens which may be more common in children." 

4) A picture is worth a thousand words— during the vast majority of the pandemic — kids were the main index case source of household #COVID transmission. Just look at it — everything except white is kids==>other transmission.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Participatory Surveillance to Discern the Role of Children in Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2This cohort study uses data from commercially available smart thermometers to estimate the role of children in household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from the beginning of the pandemic until October 202…https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2805468

5) if someone misled you that kids are “practically immune” or “kids don’t transmit”… you should be angry right now that they endangered your family.

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6) and yes kids are at risk too. Kids may not die with same rate as adults (kids shouldn’t die period!!!), but kids have suffered substantial COVID hospitalization and mortality too.

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