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[quote=Anonymous]As usual, you all read the headlines but not the actual scientific article.

"It should be acknowledged that in our analysis, we were unable to account for different precautions regarding school reopening that were adopted by some countries, such as physical distancing within classrooms (eg, limiting class sizes and placing transparent dividers between students) and outside classrooms (eg, physical distancing during meal times, recreation, and transportation), enhanced hygiene (eg, routine deep cleaning and personal handwashing and face masks), and others (eg, thermal temperature checks on arrival). Such precautions are imperative for safer school reopening. A COVID-19 outbreak was reported in a high school in Israel 10 days after its reopening; students were in crowded classrooms and were not instructed to wear face masks due to high temperatures. In addition, it should be noted that we did not consider the normal school holidays in some countries. We were also unable to assess the effect of reopening different levels of school (eg, elementary vs middle schools) since the effect might differ by finer age bands within school-age children and adolescents.”

I'll add that I've looked at the data, and very few of the 131 countries actually had school open during the study period.  In many of those that did open schools, the R was already increasing at a steady rate, and school did not change this rate further, making it suspect to conclude that an increase after school opening was actually caused by schools opening.

If you want to keep schools closed in the US because the country of Andorra had an increase in cases after opening schools, I question your judgment.[/quote]

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