OT Covid priority groups

[Ram59]

P.S. I do wonder if we’ve got the priority groups quite right. At the moment it seems to be secondary school pupils and college students who seem to be the biggest ‘super spreaders’. Personally I think that was completely predictable, but they are also relatively easy groups to vaccinate...especially the former who are all in one place for most of the day. Maybe they should be the priority?[/QUOTE]

You're totally wrong there RA, you've got to vaccinate those most likely to die or be hospitalised first. Then, even if the kids continue to spread it around, the ones most likely to need treatment, will be immune.

Your idea may reduce the number of cases, but not be as effective in reducing deaths and hospitalisations.

[ramAnag]

P.S. I do wonder if we’ve got the priority groups quite right. At the moment it seems to be secondary school pupils and college students who seem to be the biggest ‘super spreaders’. Personally I think that was completely predictable, but they are also relatively easy groups to vaccinate...especially the former who are all in one place for most of the day. Maybe they should be the priority?

You're totally wrong there RA, you've got to vaccinate those most likely to die or be hospitalised first. Then, even if the kids continue to spread it around, the ones most likely to need treatment, will be immune.

Your idea may reduce the number of cases, but not be as effective in reducing deaths and hospitalisations.[/QUOTE]

I might be, I’m not sure you can be as certain as you seem and I was posing a question not making an assertion.
My reasoning goes...schools are well know for being ‘hotbeds’ of germ and virus reproduction. That’s inevitable and is the reason we’ve closed down the vast majority of other places where people gather together in large numbers.
If the young, and largely immune, people who attend schools only contacted each other you’d most likely be right...but they don’t. They all go home, and being te-enagers, probably journey home quite irresponsibly. That’s a combination which almost guarantees the spread of the virus.
The question I suppose is...should one of the greatest priorities be stopping the most obvious source of spread?