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Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since [b]multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school.[/b] Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.[/quote]

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback. 
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[b]This was known by epidemiologists back in April or May of last year...[/b][/quote]

Link? 
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There's a little bit about the data in the article on Rhode Island's governor doing her best (to include offering to help parents sue school districts) to keep schools there open in-person:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html[/quote]

The study was from January 2021. 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775875

From your article: 
[i]"[u]Raimondo had none of that C.D.C. research at hand when she made her decision on school openings in June[/u]; to the contrary, the safer political move would have been to leave the call, as many governors did, to local districts, given the obvious risk of coming down on the wrong side of a decision with potential serious health implications. The state brought in a Boston-based education consulting group to help manage the logistics of school openings; [u]those consultants strongly advised Rhode Island’s board of education that the best way to manage openings was not to have them[/u] — to offer mostly remote instruction, the choice that many large urban districts eventually announced.

[u]Many public-health experts still believed, around the time that Raimondo was deciding, that children were likely to be worrisome vectors of the virus at school, with implications for community spread. Reports in Israel pointed toward spread in schools [/u](though later investigation revealed that safety protocols were not being followed); Ashish Jha, now dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, [u]predicted that in areas of high rates of Covid prevalence, if infected students went to school,[/u] “they’d spread it to their teachers and staff,” with large outbreaks in schools inevitable. At the time, encouraging research in Sweden and China suggested the possibility of safety in schools, but it was hard to know whether those studies would be relevant to large American districts like Providence or Boston, with their aging infrastructure, their relatively crowded schools, their narrow stairwells and often-inoperable windows. It seemed intuitive, to many parents and teachers, that schools would be significant sites of transmission, as they have always been known to be for influenza."[/i]

Sounds like you are full of s.
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Look at Asia.  They reopened schools very quickly because unlike flu, children are not covid vectors.  We've known that from very early on.

We've known that.[/quote]

Still waiting on "multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school" from "epidemiologists back in April or May of last year"

Put up or shut up.

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I wasn't the one who said "epidemiologists back in April or May", but here from the head of Harvard-Chan School of Public Health:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1359954563923648514[/twitter]

That was before most northern VA districts made the call to go remote only.[/quote]

He wrote an [i]op-ed[/i] in June 2020 - that isn't "multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school". 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/24/yes-kids-should-be-going-back-school-fall/

And he said air cleaners were necessary - did we have those in place in August?

And a "culture of health, safety and shared responsibility". Tough to do with so many covid deniers/Open Schools Now types in our community.

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