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THREAD: To safely return kids to in-class learning, schools will need detailed guidance on reducing Covid risk. They may have to look elsewhere, to state documents as well as foreign public health authorities that issued detailed, science driven guidance. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, and protect the safety of kids and teachers sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/s…
Denmark and Finland issued detailed plans, and took important public health measures, to improve safety of children and teachers in the classroom. Their documents offer some thoughtful, science based guidance. brookings.edu/blog/education…
Other countries like Taiwan also published science based documents that offer important public health guidance. edweek.org/ew/articles/20…
States, including Connecticut, have also issued detailed plans that provide science-based guidance on the circumstances under which we can safely maintain in-class instruction for kids. portal.ct.gov/-/media/SDE/CO…
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Hospitalization rates are rising across the South; with higher positivity among older Americans as an epidemic that started in younger people expands into more vulnerable cohorts. Nearly 40% of Texas’ fatalities are residents of long-term care facilities. dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/CO…
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THREAD: This is a hard moment - but it’s a brief moment in our long history. It’s six months until we get to a technology to end the Covid epidemic through vaccines or medicines. We need to act collectively to reduce our overall threat during this time of risk and uncertainty.
The priority should be on preserving life, keeping kids safely in school this fall and businesses safely operating. That means maximizing measures that allow those things to happen, while reducing our individual risk of contracting and spreading Covid. Chief is universal masking.
We need to all work together to take steps to reduce our collective risk so we can maximize the opportunity to do those things most important: running our businesses, sending our kids to school, seeing grandparents and keeping them safe, getting medical care when we need it.
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When we see data showing in hospital mortality for Covid patients aged 35-44 of almost 5% we should keep in mind — that’s exceptionally high; especially since criteria for admission is generally just an oxygen saturation below 93%. Many of these young people are otherwise healthy
To provide some rough basis for comparison, the in hospital death rate for pneumonia across all age groups is 3.3% — and this CDC data is skewed heavily toward elderly patients who are more likely to be admitted for pneumonia.
Here’s data on hospitalizations for ordinary pneumonia; they skew heavily toward older cohorts. On a relative basis to comparable diagnoses, that almost 5% in hospital death rate for 35-44 year-olds with Covid disease represents a lot of excess mortality cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/m…
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