The Case for Opening Schools… and Closing Lots of Other Stuff

About a month ago, I suddenly found myself a convert to the burgeoning movement to open schools. The people close to me reacted as if I had lost my mind. But the data is increasingly clear: because grade schools follow coronavirus safety protocols better than almost any other institution, cases don’t spread on these campuses. This is true across the globe, and as a result, all over Europe schools are open while everything else shuts down.

This ideological shift was nothing short of radical for me. Back in the spring, like every other pediatrician I knew, I was an active voice for shutting down… READ MORE