On the school reopening debate, this study referenced by @NickKristof seems crucial.
It acknowledges and quantifies the risk in opening schools but it also quantifies the risk in keeping kids home so that the tradeoff can be compared.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2772834 …
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I think the debate about cost/benefit is very important - unfortunately, this particular paper has quite a few issues/errors that I am worried are skewing this debatehttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1327872367893176320?s=20 …
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Ok, so I've had a read of this paper (which has been all over the news) that says quite explicitly that closing schools will probably cause more years of life lost than leaving them open in a pandemic
Let's do some peer-review on twitter! 1/n https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1327791987014074369 … pic.twitter.com/ZxjMUXem5y
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