Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues
at 4:00 am NPR
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. â 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 outspoken advocate 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:
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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
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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:
In November, a scientific paper estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. The paper has since been corrected and critiqued.
I didn’t see any Health Care Section in today’s links so I’ll insert my two cents worth.
It was through someone’s comments here at NC that I stumbled onto Jack London’s the “Iron Heel.” Last night I read his “War of the Working Class” and he wrote something in the introduction that made me think of Jimmy Dore’s M4A vote initiative.
Only dangerous things are abhorrent. The thing that is not dangerous is
always respectable. And so with socialism in the United States. For
several years it has been very respectable,–a sweet and beautiful