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goats
Here he goes again, Drakefords pa. I haven’t seen evidence that kids can get it, in fact with all the talk of football starting I see there is 1 in a million chance of an under 30 dying of covid, one in 10 million under 10 was it?
No evidence formally presented yet, it would be very early for that. But there has been a study sponsored by the Royal College of Paediatricians (although at the moment published via a blog) which cannot identify a single case of a child under 10 passing the virus on.
It seems to be a large study of thousands of cases across China and Europe. One example used in the media is the child of the first UK case, who had been in close contact with almost 200 people. Many had caught a common cold from him but none caught Covid, despite Covid being more contagious .
It is obviously too early to be sure, and more research is needed, but Switzerland are acting on it and allowing children close contact with grandparents.
If young kids could go to school and see family members at some point before too long, without increasing the risk of transfer, it would be massive for people and an economic boost.
Also the fuss I was referring to was getting the schools ready, not catching the virus. You talk about the death rate being so bad but it’s not here in Cardiff County is it? 200 altogether, half of which were in care homes, so 100 people In the community out of what 600,000?
100 isn’t good but no doubt more have died from other factors in the last 8 weeks.
Dont think boris has done that well either to be honest, we lockdown too late but most people didn’t give a shit a few months ago did they. New territory
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