Child Covid-19 Cases Rise in States Where Schools Opened Earliest

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: WSJ

The shutdowns are hitting classrooms especially hard in the Deep South, where most schools were among the first to open, a possible warning of what’s to come as the rest of the nation’s students start school this month.

In Mississippi, 13,715 students have tested positive for Covid-19 since most schools inaugurated the new academic year in early August, sending more than 20,000 students into quarantine for each of the past three weeks, as of Aug. 31, according to the state health department. In New Mexico, nearly 10% of the state’s 317,000 students have spent time in quarantine, state data show. And in Georgia, more than half of the state’s outbreaks for the week ended Aug. 27 were linked to schools, according to the state health department.

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Average daily new cases among school-age children grew at faster rates last month in all 20 states where schools opened in late July and early August, as compared with the states where schools opened later. Half of those states, which include Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Louisiana, have seen record rates of new daily infections among children and teens since school started, according to data from the COVKID Project, a program of the Women’s Institute for Independent Social inquiry that has been tracking and compiling U.S. Covid-19 infection data in children and teens from state public health departments.

A study released by the CDC last week illustrates how easily the Delta variant can rip through a school when safety protocols like masking aren’t followed: At a California elementary school, an unvaccinated, unmasked and infected teacher spread the virus to more than half of the students in the teacher’s immediate classroom in late May. The teacher also infected six students in a separate grade, and another four parents and four siblings of students. In all, contact with one infected teacher led to 26 more cases in the school community.


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[Scrivener7]

1. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[Traildogbob]

2. Yep, the south is rising again

“Rising number of deaths from stupid”. And willing to kill their own kids. When we gonna see Statues of DeSatan and Abbott at every city's center? Will they be up on their steed holding on to a flag pole with Trumps name printed across the Stars and Bars? After Saturday football games, it will be nationwide full blown hospitals and death. “Go Team”. That’s the school spirit. Tuition is non refundable. Parents can add that financial loss to hospital stays and funerals for their unmasked child. FreeDumb. Their body, their choice. Masks don’t work. You will NOT mask our kids. Vaccines make you black and gay. Happy Thanksgiving, if they live past Halloween.

[lapfog_1]

3. It was too optimistic to reopen the schools

tele learning might not be as effective as in person... but it is a lot less deadly.

And the anti-maskers made the situation much worse.

[IronLionZion]

4. The South always said they will rise again

Freepers are blaming this on Biden flying in Afghan refugees, not the unvaxxed unmasked people who have been spreading COVID around their red counties all summer.

[Grokenstein]

5. It's always "the immigrants." Even when it's not.

[Orrex]

6. Well no shit.

Funny, it seems like just a few weeks ago someone here on DU was scolding me for not wanting to send my children back into a covid petri dish.