What I find interesting is the second to last column, which I assume is the count of confirmed cases.
Setting aside the possibly falsely inflated positive testing numbers, you can visualize a non-linear curve of positive cases rising as the age increases. If you assume that the younger crowd (say 60 and younger) are out and interacting with people more, it's likely that there are just as many positive cases as for the older crowd who are not going out and about. These people didn't notice they had it, or simply laid up at home to get well without bothering to get tested. What this means is that the positive case count is probably much, much higher than reported there.
And the fataility rate is much, much lower as a result.
So they can rationalize closing schools... Teachers union want to close charter schools because they can't control the syllabus, and they are losing money as more people choose charter schools over public.
Its fairly well settled that kids are so slightly affected that they are very poor vectors. I am over 65 with two school-aged kids for which I am the sole guardian. They are the least of my worries, and Covid in general is the second least.
What I find interesting is the second to last column, which I assume is the count of confirmed cases.
Setting aside the possibly falsely inflated positive testing numbers, you can visualize a non-linear curve of positive cases rising as the age increases. If you assume that the younger crowd (say 60 and younger) are out and interacting with people more, it's likely that there are just as many positive cases as for the older crowd who are not going out and about. These people didn't notice they had it, or simply laid up at home to get well without bothering to get tested. What this means is that the positive case count is probably much, much higher than reported there.
And the fataility rate is much, much lower as a result.
That was a good guess but incorrect. The next-to-last column was the total number of reported deaths.
So it goes from essentially zero for age 0-24, to just under 1 percent of deaths for 25-34 and then roughly 2 percent for all older groups.
So they can rationalize closing schools... Teachers union want to close charter schools because they can't control the syllabus, and they are losing money as more people choose charter schools over public.
Its fairly well settled that kids are so slightly affected that they are very poor vectors. I am over 65 with two school-aged kids for which I am the sole guardian. They are the least of my worries, and Covid in general is the second least.