In a report published September 2nd, researchers concluded a 12-month study showing that teachers do not have an increased risk of hospitalization from COVID19.
This jibes with data we’ve been sharing for over a year and just reported on again yesterday. Those under twenty have a low incidence of infection, few if any symptoms, and have not proven to be spreaders of the virus even when tested positive.
Early on, it was determined that they could not retain the necessary viral load to transfer pathogens, and recent CDC data continues to support that.
Healthy kids don’t get hospitalized or die from COVID19, and that’s most kids.
Related: CDC Data – COVID19 Represents a 0.00001% Mortality Threat to Children in America.
It appears that teachers who spend most of their day with them do not present increased cases or serious cases compared to other occupations.
Conclusion Compared with adults of working age who are otherwise similar, teachers and their household members were not found to be at increased risk of hospital admission with covid-19 and were found to be at lower risk of severe covid-19. These findings should reassure those who are engaged in face-to-face teaching.
Some might argue that’s not good enough. If you refuse to look at actual data and hew instead to the noise machine, I suppose we could expect nothing less. But the data is forever in your favor.
Looking at New Hampshire from March 2020 to September 2021, working-age Granite Staters who tested positive had a better than 99.9% survival rate. Less than 1% (0.7) were hospitalized or tested positive in a hospital after admission for something else.
If we extend the “working age” to 69 years of age, 98.9% never end up in a hospital, and 99.8% live to tell the tale.
It’s not a plague, and it is as much a pandemic as any other flu season except for the very old who, as we’ve reported previously, are dying younger than without COVID. The average age of death is the same before and after COVID19.
But let’s pretend none of that is true and create a hyper-sensitive public-health despotism that empowers politicians enriches bureaucrats and Big Med while overly likely creating more harm in the process than is represented by the thing they claim to be fighting.
The only thing they are fighting is the truth.
