Originally Posted by
8420PR
The vast majority of children have a mild illness, but still the study you shared shows an impact (either hospital visit or symptoms longer than 28 days) for ~2%.
I've just come off a Teams meeting with the local education authorities, and yes there are a lot of children off with Delta right now, and pupil (and teacher) long term sickness levels are running much higher than normal - mostly Long Covid related. School sport is disrupted, schools can't raise full rugby or basketball teams, teachers are off looking after their own children, carol concerts cancelled and so on. However one school is working 100% normally, zero infections, full education programme, and no staff off work. As you can probably guess, it is a Special Needs school where 100% of pupils and staff were vaccinated before term started.