Well, if I were going to use Google, as you should (and will, because this is so important to you), I'd enter a search string like, I dunno, "covid infection rate by age".
That's kind of what I thought---You don't have a clue---you just spout Leftist talking points. Thank you for your time
You're right, I don't know the rates. If I wanted to know, I'd look it up on Google. Edit: instead of playing dumfuk games.
Leftists would like to shutdown anything they can in order to affect the election. Leftists care not who gets hurt----or dies. Leftists don't have any idea how dangerous or mild Kung Flu is for children and teachers Leftists only interest is in pushing The Anti-Trump Narrative. Leftists care not if Biden gets in due to massive voter fraud.
Betsy DeVos publicly absent as critical decisions are made on public school reopenings As public schools grapple with the challenge of reopening during a pandemic, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is getting criticism for her low profile. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...ns-are-made-public-school-reopenings-n1236159 As public schools grapple with the challenge of reopening during a pandemic, public education advocates are criticizing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for working remotely from Michigan, where she owns a sprawling waterfront estate with a round-the-clock security detail paid for by taxpayers. And while keeping herself largely physically distanced as the coronavirus continues to spread, DeVos has been a forceful advocate for President Donald Trump's demand that schools reopen in full and in person — potentially placing millions of teachers and students at risk of infection. It's a striking bit of mixed messaging for DeVos, a billionaire heiress, major GOP donor and charter school advocate who had no experience with public education before she became education secretary. DeVos is the nation's top education official as school administrators deal with one the biggest health crises facing the nation: how to safely bring 51 million American children back into classrooms or administer virtual education during a pandemic. Questions persist as to why DeVos requires full-time protection from the U.S. Marshals Service, which NBC News reported she began receiving shortly after she was confirmed — the only Cabinet official with such an arrangement. In all, her security detail has cost taxpayers at least $25 million, NBC News has learned. The Marshals Service wouldn't comment on the arrangement or any specific security threat DeVos faces. Rather than actively offer guidelines to public schools as they struggle with the immense financial and logistical challenges of reopening, DeVos told the Washington Examiner in June that she was working mostly remotely from Michigan, her home state — where she owns the 22,000-square-foot estate on Lake Macatawa — with a public schedule that has been mostly empty for the past several weeks, including no events on her public schedule for this week. Education Department spokeswoman Angela Morabito said DeVos has been dividing her time among Michigan, Washington and road trips. DeVos has been holding events not listed on her public calendar, including several sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, according to Federalist Society postings. She has also participated in a few events related to private schools and advocacy for vouchers, including a roundtable July 23 at a private Christian school in Ohio and two events in the Carolinas with Vice President Mike Pence. Her press office said she has been in constant contact with governors and state superintendents virtually and in person. Yet NBC News couldn't find a record of similar events with public school officials; Noelle Ellerson Ng, associate executive director for advocacy at AASA The School Superintendents Association, representing public school superintendents in 49 states, said the group hasn't heard from DeVos this year. "We would stand ready to answer that call. That's my job, to be a direct liaison to the federal government," said Ellerson Ng, who said she facilitated many such meetings for previous education secretaries of both parties. The group has been critical of DeVos' proposed education budget cuts. State officials are also pleading for more assistance. With school reopening in three weeks, Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Conn., told MSNBC on Friday that he still doesn't know "what, if anything, the feds are going to do to help." Days after DeVos' and Pence's visit July 29 to a classroom at Thales Academy, a network of private nonsectarian community schools in North Carolina, to highlight the school as a model for reopening, several fourth-grade students were asked to quarantine after a student tested positive for COVID-19. "Thales is a great example more schools could emulate," DeVos said during the visit. "You didn't wait for guidance from the Department of Education. You didn't ask for permission." DeVos had no events on her public calendar last week. Still, she continues to echo the president's demand that public schools reopen for in-person instruction, regardless of the levels of infection in their communities. She also insists that it isn't her job to help localities determine how to do so safely. "The secretary of education isn't the nation's superintendent," DeVos said July 21 at a roundtable in South Carolina with Pence. DeVos declined to appear at a House coronavirus subcommittee hearing on safely reopening K-12 schools "so she could explain why she is pressuring schools to fully reopen, despite the risks," James Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 House Democrat, said Thursday. "I offered to accommodate her schedule. But she refused to appear," Clyburn said. DeVos' press office said it offered Assistant Secretary Frank Brogan to appear on 11 alternative dates in August and September. Among the witnesses: Angela Skillings, a second-grade teacher in Arizona who contracted COVID-19 this summer after working in a classroom with a teacher who died. DeVos' absence as schools struggle with their next steps hasn't been lost on public education advocates. A Michigan-based group, Protect Our Public Schools, is sponsoring a mobile billboard calling on DeVos to "stop hiding in your mansion." This week, the billboard will travel to Grand Rapids and Holland, Michigan, where DeVos' summer home is located. Critics also point to the Grand Rapids aviation charter school that DeVos' husband, Dick, founded, which is offering a fully virtual option for the fall. "What Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump are doing is equivalent to sending our military in harm's way without ammunition or bulletproof vests. Except nobody signed up for this," said the group's vice president, Ellen Offen, a former Detroit Public Schools teacher. "It is simply gambling with the lives of our children, teachers and school parents. It is totally unacceptable." A Politico/Morning Consult poll last month found that 65 percent of voters said they disagree with Trump's threat to cut federal funding for schools that don't reopen. Beth DeShone, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, a Michigan-based school choice advocacy group founded by DeVos, said, "There is no one-size-fits-all solution." School districts and communities must "work together to provide guidance and plans for their own school buildings," she said. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the ranking member of the subcommittee, said there "are road maps everywhere" on reopening schools, including one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Furthermore, he said, children are suffering in other ways. "When children aren't in school, there are very devastating things happening to them," he said Thursday. Public school officials say there is a strong need for greater federal involvement as schools approach reopening. Glenn Maleyko, superintendent of schools in Dearborn, one of Michigan's largest districts, said he's gotten little direction from the federal government. "The guidance that we've received, if anything, from a health perspective is from the county," Maleyko said. Given the pandemic and its potential mental and physical health effects on schoolchildren, the education secretary could have, for example, convened an emergency interagency task force to ensure coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services, states and school districts to provide detailed guidance, said Chris Lu, who was President Barack Obama's Cabinet secretary. "You have a secretary who has expressed, philosophically, little interest in public schools and in terms of her travel has visited very few public schools," Lu said. "So the idea of her actually convening an interagency task force on public schools is so antithetical to everything she's done or believes."
Coronavirus testing in Texas plummets as schools prepare to reopen Texas' low number of tests and large percentage of positive results suggest inadequacies in the state's public health surveillance effort at a time when school reopenings are certain to increase viral spread, health experts said. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/10/coronavirus-testing-texas/ The number of Texans being tested for the coronavirus has fallen sharply in recent weeks, a trend that has worried public health experts as officials consider sending children back to school while thousands more Texans are infected each day. In the week ending Aug. 8, an average 36,255 coronavirus tests were administered in Texaseach day — a drop of about 42% from two weeks earlier, when the average number of daily tests was 62,516. At the same time, the percentage of tests yielding positive results has climbed, up to 20% on average in the week ending Aug. 8. Two weeks earlier, the average positivity rate was around 14%. On Saturday, the state set a record for its positivity rate, with more than half of that day’s roughly 14,000 viral tests indicating an infection. Taken together, the low number of tests and the large percentage of positive results suggest inadequacies in the state's public health surveillance effort at a time when school reopenings are certain to increase viral spread, health experts said. "Opening the schools is a really complicated problem, and the best thing we can do is get the number of cases down so kids can go back to school safely," said Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist at UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston. "There are so many reasons why kids need to be in school, particularly younger kids, but we’re finding out more and more they can get infected, and the concern is them bringing it home and spreading in the community and spreading to teachers. "I think the worst thing would be for schools to open, then close," she said. "That really makes it hard on parents, that unpredictability, and there’s a lot of costs associated with opening the schools safely." The decline in tests may be driven in at least some places by a drop in demand. In Austin, health officials say fewer people are seeking tests through the city’s online portal and at local events. Local officials had been forced in late June to limit testing only to people who were showing symptoms of the coronavirus. Now, they are opening it back up to asymptomatic people. And at sites in Dallas, testingnumbers have been declining over the past few weeks as locals utilize less of the city’s capacity. The number of tests performed in Texas has “never been great,” said Vivian Ho, a health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, but “it’s extremely troubling” that the numbers have dipped since last month. “It’s troubling because we can guess at some of the reasons, but we’re not sure,” she said. She suggested that some people may have been discouraged by long wait times for test results, or less concerned about the virus’ toll in Texas after a frightening peak in July began to flatten out. A declining number of tests is a particularly thorny issue for schools, Ho said. "No public school has the resources to do testing under the current circumstances. There are huge class sizes and crowded hallways,” she said. Researchers estimate that the true number of coronavirus cases could be more than 10 times the number of positive tests. As many as half of the people who contract the virus may never experience symptoms. State data shows coronavirus hospitalizations declining in Texas, with some 7,500 coronavirus patients reported in Texas hospitals on Sunday. That’s down from a late July peak of about 11,000 — but remains well above Texas’ levels in the spring, when daily hospitalizations plateaued below 2,000. In San Antonio, health officials last week said that a return to school would lead to new viral transmission and a growing body of evidence shows racial disparities in children’s susceptibility to severe illness from the virus. “We know that children are less likely to be sick, but not immune,” said Dr. Junda Woo, medical director for San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health District, who said that on Wednesday there were about 80 children with coronavirus in local hospitals. The role of children as disease vectors is less clear, Woo said. Studies show that children are less likely than adults to have infections severe enough to require hospitalization, but a recent report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Hispanic and Black children were much more likely to be hospitalized. Hispanic children were about eight times as likely as white children to be hospitalized, while Black children were five times as likely, researchers found. In Texas, about 53% of public school students are Hispanic, and about 13% are Black. “Outbreaks will happen” in schools, Woo said. She likened schools to other group settings that have seen significant clusters of infection, such as nursing homes and daycares. “It’s going to seep in from the community as a whole.” Gov. Greg Abbott said on July 31 that local health officials could not issue blanket orders that preemptively blocked schools in their jurisdictions from opening their classrooms for in-person instruction. That statement, which followed similar guidance from Attorney General Ken Paxton, came after about 18 local health authorities had issued such orders. The move frustrated some superintendents, who said they were hamstrung in their ability to respond to the pandemic. Abbott has said that local health officials could shut down schools that have COVID-19 outbreaks after they reopen. Abbott also said school districts could ask for more time to limit the number of students learning in classrooms, on a case-by-case basis, beyond the current eight-week maximum set by the Texas Education Agency. And he told school officials that they could move their start dates later in the year with a school board vote, as long as they make up the time. The Texas Education Agency has not yet released any specifics on which districts will be able to receive waivers to limit in-person instruction beyond eight weeks or under what circumstances. But it said it will penalize school districts for unlawful school closures, worrying superintendents who want more certainty of state support while handling an unpredictable pandemic. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters last week that communities with high levels of viral spread may be better off not reopening schools for in-person instruction. “There are some areas, like we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks … of very significant viral activity,” Fauci said during an Aug. 6 briefing with journalists hosted by the Alliance for Health Policy. “Under those circumstances, you’ve got to use common sense … It may not be prudent to get the children back to school in those areas. So, you got to say, ‘Try as best as you can to get the children back to school, but one size does not fit all.’” (Charts can be found in article at the above url)
She was never a real choice for Secy of Education...it was a thank you reach around from Trump for all her money donations, not a pick to actually do some work there. She is just waiting out her time so she can go back to the private sector and make more money.
Big Ten will not play college football in fall https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...e-football-season-not-played-fall/3343576001/ The Big Ten will not play football in the fall with "the possibility of competition in the spring" due to health concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic. the conference said Tuesday. After a dramatic few days full of meetings among coaches, athletics directors and university presidents, the stunning decision marks a potential tipping point for the Bowl Subdivision to play a season amid the coronavirus pandemic. "The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a statement. “As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall." The Big Ten's decision, which also includes the postponement of all fall sports, comes as another two Power Five leagues, the Pac-12 and Big 12, are holding meetings to weigh the question of how to play and deal with health and safety concerns caused by COVID-19. "For many months, we had hoped that the return of fall collegiate sports might be an opportunity to restore some sense of normalcy and provide brighter moments for our university, our city and our state," said Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank and athletics director Barry Alvarez in a co-signed statement. "Even so, today’s decision by the Big Ten to postpone the fall 2020 sports season is the correct one.