Nearly 100,000 Children In U.S. Tested Positive For COVID-19 In Last 2 Weeks Of July
Source: Huffington Post
More than 97,000 children in the U.S. tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, underscoring the difficulty for schools considering if or how they can reopen in the fall, according to a new report.
The findings, compiled by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, included data from 49 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam. But the report didn’t include complete data from Texas — which has seen a surge in cases — or parts of New York, meaning the number of infections could be higher.
Officials have long warned that the true coronavirus toll may be much higher than reported due to insufficient testing and the lack of symptoms in many people who are infected.
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The data adds to growing concern for parents and students as the start of the school year approaches. Many schools and colleges have said they will operate remotely or with an in-person and online hybrid. But other districts have faced pressure from to reopen as soon as possible, including from President Donald Trump.
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Good God in Butter. "They" still want to open schools back up.
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In some states and counties, school has already started and within a week, you had positives.
There were articles about at east 3 different schools/school districts in GA that started school and immediately had students test positive -
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/us/north-paulding-high-school-covid-19-cases/index.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/over-250-quarantined-in-georgia-district-after-first-week-of-school/ar-BB17JoQk?li=BBnb7Kz
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/us/second-grader-coronavirus-first-day-of-school/index.html
Here in the Philly area, there have been positives and quarantined children who were involved in summer sports leagues - and the governor recently came out with guidance last week recommending against any school sports until at least early 2021 since many schools here in the state have kids start early to get ready for their fall seasons. That "recommendation" (not a mandate or Executive Order) caused the junior and senior high school sports governing body - the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association - to have a fit 
(obviously because the onus was put back on them to decide, scuttling what probably would have been their plans to protest outside the state capitol, with news reporters dutifully amplifying their nonsense, any "mandate" had one happened). But they finally agreed to "pause" for 2 weeks.
and I know the end-of-July uptick was most likely due to the many July 4th gatherings (we had that happen here, with the age of infections significantly increasing in younger people <30, who made up nearly 1/4 of the positive cases).
I think the OP article thrust and warnings were done to counter the pervasive misconception that children are somehow immune or less likely to get infected and spread it. The articles I linked to are showing just what happens when proper mitigation is not done - even when it involves children, notably for those school districts that insist on going full speed ahead with "in-person" school openings!
The unfortunate other side of that coin is how to deal with younger children whose parents cannot work from home. And even for older kids, for those who would go "virtual", what do you do with the tens of thousands without any internet access (they estimated 25% of Philly school kids have no or barely usable internet access)? 
(as a somewhat solution here, since Comcast is HQ'd here and has the 2 tallest towers in the city built with the money they have raked in over a number decades, they have kicked in, along with the city, some CARES money, and philanthropies, to provide internet access to something like 35,000 households)
while ours keeps going and going and going....
What’s more, in Sweden, deaths have declined nearly to zero. And since the country’s economy has remained open this whole time, there’s little risk of resurgence when whatever minimal restrictions are still in place are finally lifted.
