Appears children are far more important wrt Covid-19 than hitherto assumed:
I was watching CNBC a few days ago and I think there were some schools in Florida where there had been Covid outbreaks that they had had to close. Several Universities which had gone back to conventional teaching have switched back to on line learning, again due to outbreaks.
I can't help but think about all those outbreaks that occurred in meat processing plants all around the world a few months ago. The conditions in those plants ie. No or very little sun light, areas with temperatures kept to between 4 and 6 degrees centigrade, very damp atmosphere. Those conditions sound very similar to a British winter to me, and the virus seems to really love those conditions.
So when our weather becomes more like a meat processing plant, when schools, colleges and universities are back in full swing, and when more people are back to work, traveling on buses, trains and the tube I am worried that we might be back to where we were a few months ago.
On the plus side we know a lot more about the virus now than we did, and we seem to have treatments that provide some benefit. I think though we desperately need a vaccine otherwise I don't see how we get out of this mess we find ourselves in.
I was just listening to LBC, they did a one hour programme on the virus between 4 and 5 with a Doctor (who was very good) answering questions. He reported that rates are increasing fairly quickly in both France and Germany and several other European countries. If this is happening at the height of summer what is going to happen in winter?