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Day Care Children Don’t Spread CoVid

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 9:05 p.m.

 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/u2zPWRnjaBE

 

Ninety-six percent of children in daycare could not be CoVid spreaders.  French investigators draw this conclusion from their CoVid antibody study of 327 children in 22 day care centers, 197 staff in those centers, and a 164 controls.

 

Only 3.7% of the kids and 6.8% of the staff had CoVid antibodies.  A similar 5% of the control adults had antibodies.  Those children who had CoVid antibodies were 7 times more likely to have been exposed to a household member who had the infection.  Despite carrying CoVid antibodies, NONE of the kids had positive PCR nasal or stool tests.  None of them were carrying the virus.

 

Bottom line: daycares don’t spread CoVid.  

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(21)00024-9/fulltext#seccestitle10

 

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