New Book on COVID-era School Closures

(from the 84) A new book by a journalist who covered school closures during the COVID pandemic argues that top officials and experts who urged the prolonged closing of schools did so despite overwhelming evidence that schools could be opened safely and were open in Europe with little consequence. Meanwhile, students in the U.S. suffered harm from isolation. He warns against making policy decisions based on emotion and reaction rather than evidence. 

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