Republicans apparently think that infected children won’t also infect teachers and the people they live with.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson with First Lady Melania Trump earlier this month. Parson appears to not know or care that reopening schools puts adults in danger too.
Millions of U.S. students returning to crowded classrooms could upend the scientific community’s current understanding of the role children play in transmission. Somechildren are less likely to contract and transmit the coronavirus, but researchers have not pinpointed the reason and know little about the long-term effects of COVID-19 on children and adults.
A large study from South Korea found that children ages 10 and up are just as capable of spreading the virus as adults, suggesting that school reopenings are likely to trigger new outbreaks, according toThe uncertainties give Parson little pause. He told KFTK that Missouri has “got to move on” and that requiring people to wear masks is “not a good road to go down.” And he asserted that children not returning to school “will create more problems than the virus will ever think about creating.
Of course, there’s no way for Parson to know that. If schools become breeding grounds for new infections, as Parson himself expects will happen, it seems highly likely that COVID-19-positive children will come home from school ― as they do at the end of the day ― and infect scores of parents and elderly relatives.
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