[akiddoc]

I don't really understand what the school district administrators think is going to happen. You would think they would listen to real science. Many districts fought the closings to the bitter end. I know Oakland did. Even if cases miraculously are down in early May, sending kids back to school at that time would cause another wave of infections. 100% of the time at least one child in the class room is carrying a virus. When it is a virus without herd immunity you are asking for trouble. 



Even in a family of 6 kids, 87% of the year someone in the family is contagious. 



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26245665


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4583580/


Although children do not seem to get as sick as older adults, some do get very ill. Out of the 2000 children the Chinese were able to identify as likely or definitely infected (there were certainly more they did not find), 125 were seriously ill, 13 of those became critically ill, and 1 died. 

Infecting the majority of children in this country would overwhelm Children's hospitals and Pediatric wards, and even worse kill off a large number of older relatives. Schools should have closed earlier and they need to stay closed until at least September. Even with that, we need to be ready to close them again next winter. 



https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c...2.full.pdf

[akiddoc]

I don't really understand what the school district administrators think is going to happen. You would think they would listen to real science. Many districts fought the closings to the bitter end. I know Oakland did. Even if cases miraculously are down in early May, sending kids back to school at that time would cause another wave of infections. 100% of the time at least one child in the class room is carrying a virus. When it is a virus without herd immunity you are asking for trouble. 



Even in a family of 6 kids, 87% of the year someone in the family is contagious. 



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26245665


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4583580/


Although children do not seem to get as sick as older adults, some do get very ill. Out of the 2000 children the Chinese were able to identify as likely or definitely infected (there were certainly more they did not find), 125 were seriously ill, 13 of those became critically ill, and 1 died. 

Infecting the majority of children in this country would overwhelm Children's hospitals and Pediatric wards, and even worse kill off a large number of older relatives. Schools should have closed earlier and they need to stay closed until at least September. Even with that, we need to be ready to close them again next winter. 



https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c...2.full.pdf