Asymptomatic children can infect COVID-19 in adults, as confirmed by research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A new CDC study, released Friday, found 184 students, teachers and family members connected to three daycare centers in Salt Lake City, Utah, between April 1 and July 10.
Doctors and researchers have noted that children are less likely to be seriously affected by coronavirus than their adults. However, many experts insist that infected children can spread the virus to adults even if they do not show symptoms. A new CDC study confirms that theory.
During a three-month CDC study, 12 out of 110 children eventually tested positive for the virus. Nine people showed mild symptoms, while three showed no symptoms at all.
The test revealed that 6 out of 28 teachers observed were also infected with the virus.
The new CDC president, released on Friday, confirmed that asymmetrical children can infect COVID-19 adults.
The study is all the more worrying as schools and daycare centers across the country reopen after the end of the summer. Stock image
In-depth contact tracing confirmed that 18 infected teachers and students then spread COVID-19 in at least 12 of the 46 family members who participated in the study.
Six mothers became infected with COVID-19 – one of whom needed hospitalization.
The study is all the more worrying as schools and daycare centers across the country reopen after the end of the summer.
The news comes after news that at least four teachers in three states have died from COVID-19 complications since the start of the 2020-2021 academic school year.
Primary school teacher Dimitria ‘Demi’ Bnister, 28, died Monday, just three days after being diagnosed with the virus.
The district said Bannister was at Teacher’s Work Day at Windsor Elementary School in Columbia on Aug. 28, before class began, but it was her last day of school.
She started teaching distance learning after three days and her symptoms did not show up when she was in the school building.
Demetria ‘Demi’ Benister, 28, a third-grade teacher in South Carolina, died just three days after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
U.S. It is not clear how many teachers have fallen ill with COVID-19 since the start of the new school year, but Mississippi alone has reported 604 cases among school teachers and staff.
Randy Wingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said schools need guidelines, such as mandatory face-covering and strict social distance rules, to reopen safely.
‘If the spread of the community is as high as it is in Missouri and Mississippi, if you don’t have the testing infrastructure, and if you don’t have the safety to prevent the spread of the virus in schools, we believe you can’t do this. Reopen face to face, ‘said Wingarten.
Nakoma James, 42, taught middle school and helped coach high school football. Coronavirus complications led to death on August 6 during the first week of classes
Mississippi history teacher Tom Slade died Sunday. Slade was teaching in person when the academic year began on De Guston, but began to separate after contacting someone who was positive at a church meeting. His last day of study was 21st August Gust
Ashley Dimarinis was just 34 years old when she died Sunday after three weeks in hospital. She taught social skills and special education at John Evans Middle School in Potosi, Missouri.
The start of a new school year brought with it new casualties, in Mississippi alone.
In Oxford, Mississippi, 42-year-old Nakoma James teaches in a middle school and helps coach Lana, a high school football player.
He died in August Gust during the first week of classes .. Died, but teachers and students were committing suicide when they returned to the classroom, said Adam Dum Puge, district superintendent of Lafayette County School.
Meanwhile, history teacher Tom Slade, also from Mississippi, died Sunday from pneumonia due to coronavirus.
Principal Raina Holmes said Slade was teaching in person when the academic year began on August Gust, but began to separate after contacting someone who was positive at a church meeting.
His last day of study was 21st August Gust.
On the same day, Ashley D. Mrinis, a 34-year-old teacher, died of COVID-19 in hospital three weeks later.
He taught social skills and special education at John Evans Middle School in Potosi, Missouri, 70 miles southwest of St. Louis.
In Potosi, individual classes began on 24 August Gust.
Dimarinis had already been hospitalized by then, but had been preparing for school for that year a few weeks earlier, her sister, Jennifer Hazenbuttle, said.
Superintendent Alex McCall said contact tracing determines that he has no close contact with teachers, students or staff.
School district and state officials have struggled to find the right balance with coronavirus precautions, forcing some schools to return to learning online within the first week of returning to classrooms.
According to the Washington Washington Post, a school in Georgia was to quarantine hundreds of homes on the Prep School campus just one day later.
In another district, 900 children and staff had to be isolated after being exposed to coronavirus in the first week.
In New York City, two public school teachers tested positive Tuesday in the Brooklyn school district.
The result came just a day after teachers and other staff returned to the school building from the start date of September 21st.
School district and state officials have struggled to find the right balance with coronavirus precautions, forcing some schools to return to online education within the first week of returning to classrooms. Stock image
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