"New cases in 2 school bus drivers in Nassau County, NY. That's a very bad sign."

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing

Oy, new cases in 2 school bus drivers in Nassau County, Long Island (NY). That’s a very bad sign. Kids are equally likely to be infected as adults (kids only less likely to suffer severe outcomes) — so please don’t confuse infection vs severity. #COVID19

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-long-island-coronavirus-20200310-mu2wsrs7bne43az3ocjuussj2y-story.html …
Nassau County coronavirus victim list grows to 19 cases, including two school bus drivers, leading...
The Glen Cove School District , the Locust Valley School District and the Oyster Bay-East Norwich School District all announced Tuesday shutdown following the positive tests for the two drivers.

5:43 PM - Mar 10, 2020

[frazzled]

1. The kids will be okay, but pass it on

to their parents, or worse, grandparents.

That's the hard part of this: a totally asymptomatic young person can go visit grandma in the nursing home, and boom: the whole population of the home is in danger.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Yep. That's what's merciful about this over the 1918 pandemic

That strain killed young and old alike. This one seems to spare them to a certain degree, thankfully.

[Squinch]

4. My understanding is that it was even weirder than that: it spared the young and the old, and

mostly killed strong people in their prime.

Which is bizarre. Possibly that happened because of all the soldiers in that age group who were all living and working in such close quarters.

[Dennis Donovan]

7. You're right - it did hit young adults harder than other pandemics

This one seems to depend on one's age - the older you are, the more dangerous it is (with other factors like smoking, illness, etc).

[GulfCoast66]

8. That was particularly bad in that outbreak

Those with the strongest immune systems were more likely to die and fast.

[Marrah_Goodman]

10. It is because in 1918 they didn't exactly die from the flu

They died from the immuno response in the body to the flu. It produced a cytokine storm in healthy adults. It's like the immune system going into super-over drive which killed the patient rather quickly.

[Squinch]

11. That makes sense. I never knew that.

[Marrah_Goodman]

12. I have a strange fascination about this topic

Maybe I was meant to be an epidemiologist. I've read almost everything out there on viruses...lol.

[customerserviceguy]

6. Think of how many elders

either live with their children and grandchildren, and how many provide childcare for their working adult children.

[femmedem]

2. Oh no. It's going to roar through that community. n/t

[uponit7771]

5. The kids are the carriers, this is some horror movie shit !!!

[defacto7]

9. How many children could end up with no parents?