Abstract
Viner and colleagues1 reviewed data on SARS-CoV-2 transmission involving school-age children, found no evidence that children are more likely to transmit SARS-CoV-2 than adults and suggested that children are likely the safer population group among which social distancing measures could be relaxed. We reconstructed the age groups that sustain resurgent COVID-19 in the USA by combining mobility data of >10 million individuals, age-specific COVID-19 attributable death data and school case data, and came to consistent conclusions.2 In autumn 2020, after in-person schooling or hybrid models resumed in most US school districts,3 our analyses indicate the reproduction number (R) from children and teens was well below 1 at the population level, and that children aged 0–9 years contributed less than …
Samir Bhatt
Professor, FMedSci, MAE; Scientific Director of GPAP
Statistics, machine learning and Bayesian inference for public health and infectious diseases.