The reassuring answer, at least from school officials in Cumberland, was no. When it comes to school closures, however, the evidence is now overwhelming that they imposed great economic, educational, and social costs on families while having little effect on COVID hospitalizations or fatalities. Schoolchildren were neither at significant risk of getting seriously ill nor of becoming a major vector of transmission. That school closures were cost-ineffective in containing the pandemic has become the prevailing wisdom among most experts in America and around the world. Just the other day, the New York Times observed that “children face more risk from car rides than COVID.” Precisely.

Source: New York Times January 05, 2022 15:16 UTC