If asymptomatic transmission amongst children is rare, and if Teachers ensure they isolate when displaying symptoms, then why must Schools shut? If Schools shut then parents do not go to work, which is a big problem, particularly for my family in the UK (one of which is a teacher).
Professor Mark Woolhouse, part of the SAGE team advising the UK government has stated this before:
"One thing we have learnt is that children are certainly, in the five to 15 brackets from school to early years, are minimally involved in the epidemiology of this virus. They are probably less susceptible and vanishingly unlikely to end up in hospital or to die from it.
“There is increasing evidence that they rarely transmit. For example, it is extremely difficult to find any instance anywhere in the world a single example of a child transmitting to a teacher in school. There may have been one in Australia but it is incredibly rare.
“There are certain environments where this virus transmits very well, and children are not present in these environments. Most governments in Europe now recognise that stopping children playing outside was not needed, and most governments will probably now say that going to school as normal is safe. We can use that information in the future."
