> We can close schools. One of the big challenges we have right now, if we close schools, what do we accomplish? In influenza virus, we close schools during outbreaks, because it turns out kids get infected in school and they’re like little virus reactors. They come home and they transmit it to mom and dad and brothers and sisters and so we close schools sometimes. Christmas breaks are always great for putting a dampening effect on flu. In this case, kids are not getting sick very often at all, which is one of the really good news features of this disease. In China only 2.1% of the cases are under 19 years of age.