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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
No - I'm not aware because that isn't accurate.

Just last week a long range study of the impact of full reopening of in person instruction in Texas found that the reopening “gradually but substantially accelerated” the spread of coronavirus leading to at least 43,000 additional cases and 800 additional deaths statewide.  The study was done by University of Kentucky researchers for the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and tracked weekly average COVID-19 cases in the eight weeks before and eight weeks after the state’s school districts sent students back to school in the fall.

Thankful that APS and Duran kept our community safe.[/quote]

Huh, interesting.  Here is a Texas newspaper article summarizing this study:  [url]https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/10/texas-schools-coronavirus-increase-study/[/url]  The study says opening schools early in Texas led to 40,000 more cases that the state otherwise wouldn't have had and about 800 deaths.

That ain't nothin, guys.  The article notes the competing values in play here:  surely some of the students who returned experienced positive mental health and academic benefits.  On the other hand, of course, people died.  And when some of the people who die are teachers that students have relationships with, that can cause additional trauma for students as well.  (Not to mention for the teacher's families, etc., of course.)

This study was conducted by a non-partisan group so it's not like they were looking for a specific outcome (and the University of Kentucky isn't exactly a hotbed of liberalism so ...).[/quote]

If you read the study summary, they point out that a lot of the increased cases were attributable to adult behavior as a result of reopening.

"Using similar event-study models and SafeGraph data (which tracks the movement of individuals aged 16 and older by using cell phone data), we show that time spent outside the home by adults rose sharply in communities with the largest numbers of children after school reopenings. Some evidence also suggests increased mobility in communities with large numbers of seniors, consistent with signaling effects on those not directly affected by the reopenings."

With the kids out of the house, more parents were able to go back to work in person and/or do leisure activities during the day and spread covid that way. 
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