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New Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults
Forbes magazine ^ | July 31, 2020 | William A. Haseltine

Posted on 08/02/2020 7:11:46 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal

Two new studies, though from different parts of the world, have arrived at the same conclusion: that young children not only transmit SARS-CoV-2 efficiently, but may be major drivers of the pandemic as well.

The first, which was published in JAMA yesterday, reports findings from a pediatric hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The second, a preprint manuscript awaiting peer review, was conducted in the mountainous province of Trento, Italy.

The Chicago study examines the concentration of the SARS-CoV-2 in the nasopharynx, or the upper region of the throat that connects to the nasal passages, of children and adults. According to the results, children 5 years and younger who develop mild to moderate Covid-19 symptoms have 10 to 100 times as much SARS-CoV-2 in the nasopharynx as older children and adults.

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This article is very confusing to me. It seems to me that if one has a higher concentration of the SARS-CoV-2 in the nasopharynx, then (s)he ought to be more likely to suffer with the symptoms. Thanks in advance to anyone who can enlighten me.
1 posted on 08/02/2020 7:11:46 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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More Fear Porn just as experts in pediatrics and epidemiology state the OPPOSITE.

Jeez it is so predictable.


2 posted on 08/02/2020 7:14:06 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Ovid- A Sheep. Baa Baa)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

The important take-away is not to open the schools.

For the election.

Because Trump wants them open.

If Trump wanted the schools closed, children would be the LEAST efficient carriers.

For the election.


3 posted on 08/02/2020 7:15:40 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: definitelynotaliberal

One thing is sure. This will be contradicted, or this is the contradiction.


4 posted on 08/02/2020 7:16:17 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: ecomcon

For the election.


5 posted on 08/02/2020 7:17:25 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Is Google and Twitter censoring this misinformation? I bet not, it serves the political narrative that the Democrats were trying to spin.

I wondered how long this was going to take.


6 posted on 08/02/2020 7:17:50 AM PDT by dila813
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Oh. Right. NEW evidence emerges after 10 months. How conveeeeenient.


7 posted on 08/02/2020 7:18:38 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I’ve been waiting for this latest Wild Card to be played by The Worriers. I’m surprised it’s taken this long.
Kids will suffer from too much lock-down. They need that socialization even more that we adults do. It’s how they learn to get along with other people and unpredictable events. Plus, they just get bored around the house all day.
At least many of them do.


8 posted on 08/02/2020 7:19:24 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: dila813

I guess Business Insider lost the coin toss.


9 posted on 08/02/2020 7:19:30 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Fear porn is starting to look like an 80 year old centerfold in Playboy.


10 posted on 08/02/2020 7:19:50 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: HypatiaTaught

... More Fear Porn

All this reminds me of The Litany Against Fear
https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Litany_Against_Fear

“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

Teaching people to fear is a form of distributed murder, like being a drug dealer


11 posted on 08/02/2020 7:20:38 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Just in time for the school year.


12 posted on 08/02/2020 7:21:32 AM PDT by EEGator
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What I’ve noticed is whatever we are told is contradicted later.

We’ve been told that children don’t seem to get any symptoms and so don’t have enough virus load to spread. Now comes these studies saying children can spread, but they are talking about children with symptoms.

The end result is fear because everything we are told changes all the time. Uncertainty brings out the worst feelings in humans.


13 posted on 08/02/2020 7:21:48 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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More Fear Porn just as experts in pediatrics and epidemiology state the OPPOSITE.

Trump must be doing very impressively in the real polls for the propaganda mill to be stooping to this level in desperation.

14 posted on 08/02/2020 7:22:15 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and youÂ’ll eventually fall in to some ocean and die anyway.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

The issue is never the issue..the issue is the Revolution.


15 posted on 08/02/2020 7:22:23 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: lee martell

The soft skills of the young people I know already sucks.
These kids will be disasters in the corporate environment.


16 posted on 08/02/2020 7:23:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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Ever notice that when the MSM or some super duper scientist studying global warming or whatever else has some new apocalyptic wet dream, they always have newer and greater names for it: SARS-CoV-2?

Corona, Covid-19, Novel Covid-19, Novel Corona virus, SARS-Cov-2...

I suppose that makes them sound more knowledgeable.


17 posted on 08/02/2020 7:23:13 AM PDT by Red6
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Perfect timing. This contradicts all (from what I have read) other studies regarding children and the transmission of COVID. Just when schools are supposed to plan their reopening. Hit piece? Yep.


18 posted on 08/02/2020 7:23:26 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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Age-Related Differences in Nasopharyngeal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Levels in Patients With Mild to Moderate Coronavirus

Be sure to read the comments.

19 posted on 08/02/2020 7:24:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

You’re wrong.

We have always been at war with EurAsia.
Also, the chocolate ration has been increased to 25 grams.


20 posted on 08/02/2020 7:24:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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