Have you heard of the recent explosive growth of infections in the Netherlands? This thread is a compilation of tweets in English to illustrate the Zeitgeist here in the recent weeks.
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The Dutch CDC @rivm claims : “The spread of COVID-19 among children or from children to adults is less common”. This claim is presented as if it was a sound conclusion derived from established science.
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This is misleading, unsound and dishonest. For the sake of comparison, the German CDC @rki_de states that children infectiousness is inconclusive, and in some studies infectiousness and viral load in children were found to be similar to adults.
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Another example is the recent report from the American CDC which employed intensive daily observation of household contacts and concluded that: “...transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among household members was frequent from either children or adults”. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…