Good data on Covid-19 is a precious resource, and it needs to be much less scarce because it could mean life and death. FMTNews Covid19 CDC
The single most important component of an effective response to the Covid-19 pandemic is rapid use of data.
Although children up to at least age 18 appear to become very ill with Covid-19 less often, they may be able to spread infection. We need to know how much risk infected children pose to the older and more medically vulnerable people around them, especially because many of these people may be called on to provide childcare during school closures.
For example, whereas Covid-19 infections spread rapidly to patients and hospital staff in Wuhan, China, and in northern Italy, Singapore has apparently yet to report a single infection of a health-care worker, despite diagnosing nearly 250 cases . For example, regular surgical masks may be sufficient for health-care workers in most settings, except where there is a risk of aerosolisation .
If, for example, a 62-year-old with well-controlled hypertension and no other illness is not at elevated risk, as seems possible, then we can focus resources on people who need them more. It’s now crucial that public-health specialists at the CDC and state and local health departments focus on getting answers to these and other critically important questions.
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