This is so incredibly misleading. To quote the study that Norman Swan was referring to: "school closures alone would prevent only 2–4% of deaths, much less than other social distancing interventions" https://twitter.com/swillsm/status/1250538633498521601 …
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Worth noting that the 2-4% figure Swan cited appears in the abstract of the systematic review, but it's taken from a single modelling study anyway! Most of the research suggests that school closures would not have a huge effect, if any
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Good luck with trying to implement social distancing in schools!
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Actually some colleagues published a paper with some very simple but potentially effective recommendations for just that. One example is staggering lunch times
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