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This @CDCgov guidance on schools should have included more detail on what is known and unknown about transmission risk (e.g nothing about large Korean study this week that showed kids 10-19 transmitted as well as adults, nothing on Israel experience...1/x cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
And did not include reference to this Kentucky school outbreak where 18 students, 3 coaches, and 17 family members and close contacts were infected 2/x
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This new CDC document did dedicate most of its space to describing the importance of school, which is widely agreed to and understood already.3/x
Decisions about how to open schools safely are hard and high consequence, and so all the information that is known about schools reopening in the US, and all the studies that have borne on this to date should be collected and made available by CDC in understandable way.4/x
Schools that are moving ahead to reopen should be following detailed CDC mitigation guidance on how to reduce risks (published earlier) and should be given the latest evolving information on transmission risk, whether encouraging or concerning. 5/x
The Administration and federal agencies do not need to spend time continuing to emphasize how valuable school is. What schools and families need is all the available info on kids' transmission risk to each other, teachers, families, and how to most lower those risks.6/end
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The president spoke this afternoon about the US response to the coronavirus pandemic. There were a number of welcome public health-grounded messages. But there are places where he needed to go further, or to clarify or ask more from governors.1/x
He asked people to use masks and social distance and said he had a mask in his pocket and said he would wear one whenever he was around others. This was all good. The next important step is for him to tell all governors to require masks in all states.2/x
He conveyed how poorly things are going in FL, which was important to say. But the next needed step is for him to call on FL governor to take decisive steps to control spread.3/x
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At White House Coronavirus task force meeting today, they described how each governor is given detailed data on regular basis about it's COVID numbers, statistics etc. That data should be made available to public so they can understand their own risks.1/x
At the meeting it was reported that diagnostic test positivity is showing signs of improving in FL, AZ, TX, CA. But those numbers have all been rising, with the first three in double digits, and AZ up to 26.8%. coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/indivi… 2/x
Very good to hear Dr. Birx at that meeting recommend that in places w serious transmission going on people should wear face coverings, avoid indoor restaurants and bars, avoid gathering in homes or indoors anywhere of more than 10 people.3/x
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The White House hosted an event called National Dialogue on Safely Reopening Schools. Many there talking about importance of schools in US but no one talking details about how to deal w risks or reopen safely, or what it will cost.1/x
Schools are extraordinarily important and we should work to open them safely in the fall. But mtg today had no one expressing concerns of so many parents+teachers. And no one talking about what is known /not known about the science related to schools and COVID spread.2/x
Children are at far lower risk of serious illness than adults in terms of COVID19. But we still don’t have enough evidence about how frequently children spread COVID to other children. Or how frequently children spread the disease to adults in school or adults in their homes.3/x
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