I just don't understand why the schools haven't cancelled classes in the Bay area..
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/DiseaseInformation/novel-co...
If kids are being pulled out of Paly for suspicious coughs then it’s time to close.
At some point staying open is criminal, not to mention stupid.
Considering that serious complications seem to be confined to older adults and the elderly (as opposed to seasonal influenza, which is also dangerous for very small kids), perhaps it's better to let it burn through the population as quickly as possible. It might be easier to keep the vulnerable population confined for a short period during the burn; once there's herd immunity (assuming infection provides immunity, of course) they should be safe.
Stanford students can just do distance learning. The infrastructure for primary and secondary schools just isn't in place to provide that, so they're forced to make more difficult decisions about the needs of their students and the curriculum on the one hand, and the risks to students' families and the wider population on the other hand.
This is misinformation. Its just way more likely to kill the elderly them the young. The same applies to the influenza however, and the preliminary numbers make this strain more deadly than influenza in both elderly and adults.
But nevertheless: we just don't know with the virus just taking hold outside of China. Give it 3 more weeks and realistic estimates are possible.
This isn't surprising because influenza is a completely different virus from coronavirus.
Of course the elderly and sick are far more at risk for any of these. All of these viruses kill by causing pneumonia--primary viral pneumonia in the case of SARS and MERS, secondary bacterial pneumonia in the case of seasonal influenza, and a seeming mix of primary and secondary pneumonia in the case of 2009 H1N1. People with cardiopulmonary problems are far more likely to succumb to pneumonia if only because their lungs are already compromised.
Kids are in close proximity at school, touch each other, don't wash hands or not touch face as they are told...
Also, even if they don't very sick, they can make others in family sick.
- that it is harmless. As vaccines are to be used on healthy people, it needs to be very safe. And of course
- it needs to be shown to be effective.
So even if we find a vaccine right now, it will take at least a year until it can be deployed. Though in this case, everything will be tried to cut the time short.
The only thing I’ve seen even remotely to this is... no one under 10 has died.
That’s a lot different than what you said.
Ignore the title and read the article. Within it is claimed that children are equally likely to catch the disease, but do not show symptoms. COVID-19 is the showing of symptoms.
It is the infection. If it were literally just the showing of symptoms, then anyone with the symptoms would have COVID-19, but a variety of diseases cause these symptoms.
Likewise, COVID-19 is the disease which has symptoms including severe coughing, fever, and shortness of breath. But if you have absolutely no symptoms whatsoever, but your blood tests positive, you do not have COVID-19. The positive result, if it isn't a false positive, indicates that your blood contains the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and therefore you are presumably fighting an asymptomatic infection. But by the terminology used by pathologists, you wouldn't have COVID-19.
So back to the original point, children generally don't get COVID-19. They may get infected by the virus, but without showing any symptoms. No symptoms, no disease, no COVID-19 classification.