Remember early in the pandemic when people would claim kids were “virtually immune” to #COVID19 and didn't spread it? New STUDY finds: “70.4% of nearly 850,000 US household COVID-19 transmissions originated with a child… Once US schools reopened in fall 2020, children contributed more to inferred within-household transmission when they were in school, and less during summer and winter breaks, a pattern consistent for 2 consecutive school years.”

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests

CIDRAP
@augieray yes! Despite the fact that basically all schools were closed for in person classes at the time, which is where most kids were obviously gonna catch the COVID 🤦‍♀️
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@eniko
"Should we still use shark cages now that the risks are so low" 😢