Interesting data and positive news for you if, like me, you live with minors who go to school and do activities or work with them or want to visit them

[Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension Weekly Bulletin]

Sent on behalf of Vice President and Dean Burgess - thank you!

Dear colleagues,

We are again in unknown and potentially scary territory as sars-cov2 infections increase exponentially nationwide. We are also entering the holiday season and people are trying to balance the risks of visiting loved ones. Once again also, as they balance our children's, their teachers and our wellbeing with scarce information, our schools will be asked to make even harder decisions than they have already been making.

Every year in my Christmas card to the college of education dean, I tell him that I believe his faculty, staff and his graduates are my heroes. Not only is this just because I could not ever face down a classroom of K-12 students but because every year our K-12 teachers put themselves directly in harm's way for our children. All too unacceptable, some have even died. This year, despite great fear that many had, our K-12 teachers again took risk for our children's best interests.

As usual I ask you to follow your instincts and look beyond the media headlines and follow the data. This can be extremely hard to do and I have attached a yet to be peer-reviewed preprint, Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England, with information I believe is extremely important and positive for everyone with school age children, as well as those with nieces and nephews and grandchildren, as well as our K-12 teachers and 4-H professionals and volunteers, so I wanted to share it with you.  In my professional opinion it will be published.

In summary, this paper describes a cohort study of 12 million UK adults focused on whether or not living with children changes the risk for COVID-19 between February and August 2020, receiving primary care through the UK's NHS, in more than 9 million adults 65 years old or younger, living with children 0-11 years old was not associated with increased risk of documented SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 hospitalization, or intensive care unit admission; however it decreased the rate of COVID-19-related deaths. Conversely, while living with 12-18 year-old children increased the risk of infection - it did not increase other outcomes. For the approximately 2.5 million adults older than 65, living with children had no association with infection or bad outcomes.
Regards,
Shane



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