MORE EVIDENCE KIDS DON’T SPREAD COVID TO ADULTS

Again, as we have been reporting, the measures to fight the COVID War being imposed on school-age children by politicians, bureaucrats, and school administrators are anathema to scientific data.
According to the BBC, a new study from researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford found “adults living with very young or primary-school-age children had no increased risk of COVID-19 infection or a related hospital admission.”
Clarifying the question of whether older children are at greater risk of spreading the virus than younger ones, the study showed “people living with secondary-school-age children had a very small (8 percent) increased risk of a COVID-19 infection, but no increased risk of hospitalization.”
Among important excerpts from the study titled, “Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: An Open Safely cohort study of 12 million adults in England”:

• “This is the first population-based study to investigate whether the risk of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes from COVID-19 differ between adults living in households with and without school-aged children during the UK pandemic.”
• “Among 2,567,671 adults >65 years, there was no association between living with children and outcomes related to SARS-CoV-2. We observed no consistent changes in risk following school closure.”
• “We observed no consistent changes in risk of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes from COVID-19 comparing periods before and after school closure.”

One of the medical experts involved in the study, Liam Smeeth, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, commented,

“There’s no net harm in kids coming back to the house from school… Many would agree if we can keep schools open, that’s really important for this generation of young people, and this study contributes one part of that equation: that there’s no net harmful effect to living with children.”

While this study has not yet been peer-reviewed, according to the medRxiv website that published it, “This study was approved by the Health Research Authority and by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Ethics Board.”
Commenting on the value of this study, Dr. David McAllister, Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow wrote,

“Strengths of the study include its representativeness and the large sample size, which meant that they were able to examine the risks before and after schools were closed, as well as among people above and below 65 years old.”

Reviewing the study, Dr. Simon Clarke, Microbiologist at the University of Reading, stated, “It makes sense for schools to remains open since the evidence suggests young children are not big spreaders of Covid-19.”
While still having some concerns that older teenagers could potentially be spreaders, Dr. Clarke clarified,

“Even teenagers are likely to have parents who aren’t yet in the older, at-risk group, and are therefore very unlikely to suffer severe health issues if they caught it themselves. This, added to the other social and educational benefits, shows that there really was little need to close schools even during the first lockdown.”

TRENDPOST: Again, with fear and hysteria of rising virus cases being spread by the media, politicians in much of the world are again locking down schools and demanding children be taught online.
As we had forecast at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, when schools across the globe were shut down in March, it signaled the onset of a 21st century online learning system, “Interactive U,” which Gerald Celente had forecast in 1996.  
The new education system that will replace the current one, which was invented by the Prussians at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, will offer great investment rewards for OnTrendpreneurs^® who wish to seize on this megatrend.
At this time, Indian companies are leading the field of online learning.
Trends are born, they grow, mature, reach old age, and die. The current online learning systems are rudimentary; they have just been born. Indeed, from kindergarten to graduate school, school administrators are virtually making up “virtual” education as they keep students out of classrooms.