Thread by @HeckofaLiberal

THREAD: Because frankly I’m growing increasingly tired of countering those who are ignoring studies coming out from across the board showing children are not the drivers of this illness... 1/

“Mark Woodhouse, a leading epidemiologist and member of the government’s Sage committee, told The Times that it may have been a mistake to close schools in March given the limited role children play in spreading the virus.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/no-kno…

“Indicative data show there is no diff in the overall incidence of the lab-confirmed C19 cases in children aged 1 to 19 years in the two countries; contact tracings in primary schools in Finland found hardly any evidence of children infecting others.” 3/ bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…

Keep in mind 32 states have had day cares open for essential workers and there have been no major outbreaks in those centers. 4/

The S.Korean study everyone likes to reference where in children under 10 11% of households were infected but in “teens and tweens” 18% of households were infected never found the index cases. Media never reported that. <20% infected in households, not an ultra high number. 5/

“...said the results suggested the virus does not spread easily in schools.
“It is rather the opposite,” Prof Berner told a press conference. “Children act more as a brake on infection. Not every infection that reaches them is passed on.” 6/ news.yahoo.com/german-study-f…

“Swedish children fared better than children in other countries during the pandemic, both in terms of education and mental health,” according to Sweden's Karolinska Institutet (KI), an independent medical research institute 7/

google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…

Recent study found not one instance of child to child not child to adult transmission. 8/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

We know unequivocally that children do suffer with flu and that they are quite contagious when they have it. That has not found to be the case with CV19 9/

We know from long before the current pandemic hit that RT-PCR testing can give a pos. when the person is infected with a less virulent HCoV, so what happens when schoool starts and children inevitably get regular colds? How many false+ will happen? 10/ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

At some point we are going to have to actually follow the science and the true experts. Our children are virtually unaffected by CV19, with few exceptions, it’s time to lead with facts, not fear. Do better America. #Covid_19 11/end