Coronavirus live updates: Latest on Auckland lockdown, community cases - Wednesday, February 17
This study is important, and could possibly shed some additional light on why some studies haven't found #COVID19 spread in #Schools at higher levels.
— Dr. Theresa Chapple (@Theresa_Chapple) January 29, 2021
Could the flaw be in our contact tracing methods and subsequently under testing? Let's explore. 🧵https://t.co/iuwEp2rp8Z
This study, like others I've elevated, found that #SARSCoV2 was spreading in contacts
less than 15 minutes, and while eating (and other unmasked), less than 5 minutes.
If we keep defining close contact as 15 minutes, we're excluding those who has
shorter contacts, especially during unmasked activities, like school breakfast and lunch.
Those students & teachers/staff aren't being informed that they may have been
exposed, not quarantined...
In the first year of the pandemic, the UK faced three big challenges. Our national government had no long-term strategy for suppressing the virus beyond a continual cycle of lockdowns. Even now we still don’t know what the government’s plans for the next six months are. In the early days of the pandemic, the UK treated Covid-19 like a bad flu. The government halted testing, and the initial plan seemed to be allow the virus to run unchecked through the population (the “herd immunity” approach). Finally, ministers have pitted the economy against public health, instead of realising that the health of the economy depends upon a healthy population.
Those in the anti-lockdown camp mistakenly believe that we could have traded these deaths for a “normal life” and a strong economy. Yet this isn’t how Covid has played out in any country in the world. Either you reopen the economy before the virus is under control, and endure thousands of deaths, or you manage your public health problem before getting the economy going again...
...While it is easy to be consumed by anger, grief, frustration and depression at this moment, we must keep looking forward for a path through this crisis. We must never have a winter like this again, and we need a concrete plan and strategy to make sure Britain does not face a third wave and a fourth lockdown. This must involve suppressing transmission, building a functioning test, trace, isolate and support system, guarding against the reimportation of infections with strict travel restrictions, while trying to reopen schools and as much of the domestic economy as possible...
The two cases were traced to what head of school Bill Crittenberger called “an off-campus gathering” with “quite a few young people” on Halloween (Oct. 31).
The two cases, one confirmed and one presumed, were reported to the school on Wednesday. The second case was confirmed on Thursday. The two students likely came to school on Tuesday, with the 500-student cohort that comes Tuesdays and Thursday, though it’s also possible one or both were in on Wednesday, with another 500-student cohort comes in on Wednesdays and Fridays....
COVID LATEST: Today we learned 13 private schools in Montgomery Co have had COVID outbreak investigations. The county says 7 investigations are ongoing, w/ groups of students at 2 schools quarantining after potential exposure. Prev coverage here: https://t.co/R5A4wZJ4H3 #NBC4DC
— Aimee Cho (@AimeeCho4) September 10, 2020
