Schools are Australia's new Delta battleground. How risky are they really?

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As another week of home learning begins for thousands of Australian students, and those in south-east Queensland head to class in masks, a return to school-as-normal seems further away than ever.

But Delta has sent her team back to the lab. "Delta has just been a game changer for the pandemic," she says. "Delta's greater transmissibility is really impacting younger people more than we possibly could have predicted."

Add to that, visits to friends or family members and trips to the shops, sports training, or a music lesson, and it's easy to see that when COVID is circulating in the community schools can act as a crucible for thousands of potential exposures in hundreds of different suburbs.evolving outbreak in QueenslandThe Brisbane school cluster, which left put thousands into quarantine, began when a 17-year-old student from Indooroopilly State High School tested positive to the virus on July 29.

The 17-year-old student's sister was infected and delivered COVID to her school, the nearby Ironside State School. A parent with a child at Ironside went on to visit Brisbane Boy's Grammar and brought the strain with her. A student there, with a sister at Brisbane Girl's Grammar, spread it to a fourth school and then it emerged at a fifth, St Peter's Lutheran College in Indooroopilly.

 

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If schools are shut playgrounds need to be also. Otherwise QR codes at playgrounds too.

Florida Approaching 50,000 cases per day. Curve is steeper than 1st or 2nd wave. 49.3% vaccinated. We need 90%

They will bring it home and it will spread to workplaces, supermarkets, and other institutions. Lockdowns will disrupt study and work and economy. Take Florida. 49.3% fully vaccinated. More cases now the first and second waves.The curve is steeper than 1st wave. We need 90%

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