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Originally published on January 31, 2021 9:55 pm
In November, I reported for NPR on a scientific paper that estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. — far more, in fact, than might be lost by keeping schools open. The paper has since been corrected and critiqued. The central question it tried to answer remains.
The paper's author, Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital, editor of the American Medical Association journal
JAMA Pediatrics and an outspokenadvocate of opening schools when possible to protect children's well-being. He told NPR recently that he wrote the paper to flesh out his argument: