Martin Kulldorff

We squandered months of time this spring when we could have contained this epidemic and made it an easy choice to send kids to school. Without those precautions in place, it's a risk. Not to most kids (still risky for some), but to all the adults around them. 5/x

It's possible kids get infected less often than adults, but it's not zero. It's possible kids transmit to others less than adults. But it's not zero. With our epidemic at the level it is, even a small contribution to overall transmission could have a big impact. 6/x

Again, I'd give anything for my 11-year-old to be grumpy with his friends again, and for my 8-year-old to giggle with hers, but we'll just need to wait longer till we have this thing under control. They get it. I hope you do, too. 7/7

Honestly this isn't about your kids or my kids who will probably be fine either way. There are millions of kids who absolutely will not be okay without school being opened, and they absolutely aren't at risk from COVID.

The same kids you're talking about are the ones whose families are most at risk. Talking about only the kids is meaningless without that context

What's meaningless is pretending that everyone is at equal risk from COVID and treating everyone as equally suseptible to serious consequences.

I literally said certain families are most at risk and most kids are not. So I'd suggest you read the tweets again.

So how about we formulate a strategy to be honest about who is at risk and use resources to protect those people. That doesn't have to mean exposing millions of others to significant risk and dire consequences.