Open the schools! 2 more studies show NO relationship between in-person K-12 schooling and spread of corona
· Oct 22, 2020 · NottheBee.com

Read this article from NPR:

I'll give you the first 3 paragraphs:

Despite widespread concerns, two new international studies show no consistent relationship between in-person K-12 schooling and the spread of the coronavirus. And a third study from the United States shows no elevated risk to childcare workers who stayed on the job.

Combined with anecdotal reports from a number of U.S. states where schools are open, as well as a crowdsourced dashboard of around 2,000 U.S. schools, some medical experts are saying it's time to shift the discussion from the risks of opening K-12 schools to the risks of keeping them closed.

"As a pediatrician, I am really seeing the negative impacts of these school closures on children," Dr. Danielle Dooley, a medical director at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., told NPR. She ticked off mental health problems, hunger, obesity due to inactivity, missing routine medical care and the risk of child abuse — on top of the loss of education. "Going to school is really vital for children. They get their meals in school, their physical activity, their health care, their education, of course."

This is NPR, mind you. Hair-on-fire-liberal NPR. You can tell how badly they want to NOT report this story by how they framed the headline, which should be emphatically stating the point of the article (NPR was already on NTB today for being hair-on-fire liberal btw).

Open the dang schools! Let our kids get back to some semblance of normalcy!


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