USA Today reports:
Many teachers and families feared a spike in COVID-19 cases when Florida made the controversial push to reopen schools in August with in-person instruction.
A USA TODAY analysis shows the state’s positive case count among kids ages 5 to 17 declined through late September after a peak in July. Among the counties seeing surges in overall cases, it’s college-age adults – not schoolchildren – driving the trend, the analysis found.
The early results in Florida show the success of rigorous mask wearing, social distancing, isolating contacts and quick contact tracing when necessary, health experts said.
“Many of the schools that have been able to successfully open have also been implementing control measures that are an important part of managing spread in these schools,” said Dr. Nathaniel Beers, who serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics' Council on School Health.
While you have to give the left-leaning paper some credit for even publishing this story, I question the 3rd paragraph. Do we know that "rigorous mask wearing, social distancing, isolating contacts and quick contact tracing" are what's preventing spike in cases? Where is the study showing this, where's the control group? Isn't that sentence/paragraph a post hoc fallacy?
Still, we can have all the evidence in the world, and I don't see Gruesome Newsom, the governor of the DPRK, backing off on his 'rona restrictions any time soon. I think he enjoys the power, or at the very least flatters himself that he's "doing something" about he 'rona.
Dallas and other blue counties in Texas have a math problem. Whereas numbers of hospitalizations for COVID have dropped, hundreds of "found" cases are being added to keep the daily tally running higher. We have no documentation where these cases come from, when they were recorded, when the tests were done or even if they are duplicates from earlier infection. I have no faith in the numbers coming from any county run by Democrats. I have no faith in the numbers from the CDC. I have friends in nursing and a couple of PA's who say the biggest problem is the insinuation of political goals into the entire COVID issue.
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