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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"Policy makers need to be aware of the equivocal evidence when considering school closures for COVID-19, and that combinations of social distancing measures should be considered" "Other less disruptive social distancing interventions in schools require further consideration"
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The paper:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30095-X/fulltext#seccestitle30 …
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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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Modelling results are dependent on the inputs - whether 2-4% of deaths could be averted by closing schools is clearly related to the assumptions the model makes about how transmissible COVID is in children.
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Absolutely. The other issue is that all of the research is either speculative about SARS-CoV-2 or more solid but about SARS-CoV-1
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