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by runamok 1234 days ago
Every child is attached to a minimum of 1 adult on average. And they are very unlikely to be particularly adept at not acquiring whatever bug is going around let alone something as infectious as covid. So to me that was always the point. One infected kid leads to all kids being infected which leads to all parents getting infected, etc.

The R naught number was very high event for the early strains: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/r0-covid-19-virus-key-metric-o...