Israel had it completely under control with some of the most severe restrictions early on. they were doing everything right. Then they opened the schools and now are back to square one, basically on the brink of losing control. To me it looks like kids, and teachers, will spread the virus in a classroom setting. Can't imagine what will happen in the States that fully open schools.
My grandkids are in Israel and being 6 and 8 were right in the thick of it. Thankfully they live in a nice moshav so it's somewhat calmer than what Tel Aviv or Jerusalem(would be brutal being very dense and tons of ultra orthodox) are but even so one of granddaughters friends tested positive.
From The daily beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/israel...lockdown-gains
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Importantly, on May 17 in Israel it appeared the virus not only was under control, but defeated. Israel reported only 10 new cases of COVID-19 in the entire country that day. In the U.S., the debate often is about reopening schools where the disease is not only not in decline, but surging.
The road from anti-coronavirus paradigm to rampant infection in this country of 9 million people followed two months of almost total lockdown.
May 17 also was the day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former rival Benny Gantz swore in their “corona emergency government,” whose sole declared purpose is to fight the spread of the virus. Netanyahu’s decree that the nation’s entire school system would reopen was a political flourish to signal everything was under control.
The announcement followed a more cautious experiment of several weeks in which only children in the first, second, and third grades were brought back to classrooms, and taught in small, non-intersecting groups called “capsules.
Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist at the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians, said: “There was no measurable increase in contagion” while the capsules for young children were being tried out.Then, Levine says, “contrary to our advice, the government decided to open the entire system all at once on May 17. What happened next was entirely predictable.”
On June 3, two weeks after schools opened, more than 244 students and staff were found to test positive for COVID-19.According to the education ministry, 2,026 students, teachers, and staff have contracted COVID-19, and 28,147 are in quarantine due to possible contagion.Just in the first two weeks of July, 393 kindergartens and schools open for summer programs have been shuttered due to cases of COVID-19.
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