Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders

The article (intentionally?) lacks the data needed to evaluate its claims. This seems to be THE major PROBLEM with covid 19. We lack basic data, and generally because we refuse to collect it.

To give one specific example:

>Texas reported 1,490 cases among students for the week ending on September 27, with 1,080,317 students estimated at school—a rate of about 0.14 percent.

Sounds great right? But texas didn't test 1,080,317 students did they? They didn't actually test anyone. So that 1490 cases could be 0 cases and 1490 kids with flu or over active imaginations. Or literally ever kid, all 1,080,317 could have covid. We have no actual idea.

The US system (government, healthcare and media) are totally unable to collect, process and publish basic statistics.

That's what's really terrifying here.

I can say that a school I'm loosely connected to has only had 2 cases so far. Both of them were "brought in" and there was no spread to other students or staff.

That's obviously anecdotal and probably meaningless to everyone outside of that particular school, so I don't suggest that it's the norm. Just that there is at least one school where this does seem to apply.