Report: Coronavirus infected scores of children and staff at Georgia sleep-away camp – The Washington Post
While similar clusters have occurred around funerals, weddings, teenage parties and adult gatherings throughout the covid-19 pandemic, few super-spreading events have been documented among children.
The report will likely add fuel to an already polarizing nationwide discussion about whether sending children back to crowded school buildings is worth the risk, in large part because so little data has been available about children’s vulnerability to the infection and their ability to transmit the virus.
“To me, this is a significant weight added to the side of the scale that says close the schools,” said Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist at the University of California-Irvine. “At some places, that might tip the balance. You’re not adding one of those 1,000-ton anvils in the cartoons, but ...
