BPS says COVID cases haven’t spiked in schools this fall. Here’s why. | Boston.com

CEID Interim Director, Dr. David Hamer is quoted:

“…Compared to last fall, there is also a different dominant strain of the virus in the United States. The BA.5 omicron variant, is highly contagious. Dr. David Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at Boston University and an attending physician in infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center, said the variant, like others, does not pose a significant health risk to children, so long as they do not have any underlying illnesses.

But infected kids can still exacerbate community transmission.

‘They have very mild illness and yet they can shed a lot of virus,’ Hamer said…”

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