And not at school and day care:
“No one wants to give up on controlling SARS-CoV-2 spread, but focusing on testing and long exclusion periods for children in child care centers appears to be unnecessary, while subjecting families to the expense of frequent testing, absence from work and lost wages, and loss of education and socialization for children,” said lead author Timothy Shope, MD, MPH, a professor at Pitt’s School of Medicine, in a university press release on the study.
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“Of 30 household cases, only 5 (17%) represented secondary infections caused by 3 students who acquired SARS-CoV-2 from their CCC [childcare center],” the authors said.
The high attack rate in households was likely due to prolonged exposure time to symptomatic persons, the authors wrote. Most childcare center cases, however, were isolated cases without linked transmission chains.
Study: Childcare centers not sites of significant COVID spread | CIDRAP (umn.edu)
This was identified in the spring of 2020, actually, where case tracking in Utah found that 60% of cases were spread through household contacts. Unless you wear your n95 mask 24×7 – AT HOME – your mask, at best, delayed your onset of Covid by a tiny bit – when you eventually got it anyway.
Rather than close households, we closed schools!
