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Monday, December 28, 2020
Children infected by superprocessors
Delicate study on crown bud at school
A corona outbreak at a Hamburg school is causing a sensation: Apparently, a super-spreader spread the virus inside the school. This contradicts the credo of the education ministers that outsiders are infected. Now you have to ask the senator for education if he has suppressed the analyzes.
According to a study by the Hamburg health authority, one of the first large crown outbreaks in a school can be traced back to a single carrier. According to a report from the “Tagesspiegel”, the authorities initially weighed it when the Heinrich Hertz school in Hamburg reported almost 40 infected people in September. Authorities initially announced that many students were infected outside of school. But now analysis shows that the opposite is true. The outbreak was largely due to a person through whom the coronavirus spread at school.
In its report, the newspaper cited information from the Hamburg health authority, which was published on the platform “Ask the State” shortly before Christmas. According to this, the Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI) and Eppendorf University Hospital investigated the outbreak in cooperation with the Hamburg-Nord health department. A large number of identical genomic sequences were identified in the samples. “Therefore, the vast majority of transmissions are probably traced to a single source of infection. The possibility that the outbreak is the result of independent entries can be ruled out with a probability close to certainty,” the department’s information quoted the newspaper as saying. of health.
Dispute about schools as a place of contagion
The test result contains some explosive. Until now, the federal states have always ensured that schools in the corona pandemic are not places of greater contagion. In early January, the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs wants to discuss how schools should proceed. A resumption of regular operations without significant protective measures may have to be reassessed in view of the Hamburg experience. According to “Tagesspiegel”, the case is also a delicate one for the Hamburg school senator, Ties Rabe. It cannot be ruled out “that the Rabe school board would like to suppress publication of the study,” the report said. Before the announcement on the portal, the school authorities would have dismissed the results as “not relevant.”
At first, “Zeit” asked school authorities about the results of the study to no avail at the end of October. “Unfortunately, we found no relevant findings from which meaningful school protection measures could be derived,” quotes the weekly Peter Albrecht, the senator’s spokesman. Rabe himself presented his own data on the infection situation in schools in mid-November and stated that “the risk of infection outside of school is much higher.” Education ministers always referred to this information when rating the school as safe, the “Tagesspiegel” wrote.
