Four years after the initial COVID-19 school closures, a consensus has emerged among public health and education experts, as reported by the NYT, that the extended shutdowns did not significantly halt the spread of the virus, while causing substantial and enduring academic harm to children. The lasting impact of the shift to online and hybrid learning models was highlighted by Dr. @ScottAtlas_IT of the Stanford Hoover Institution, @Comm4Prosperity Pres. Phil @kerpen, Univ. of Chicago Prof. @caseybmulligan, and Johns Hopkins Prof. yours truly. Reports indicate that students are still grappling with the consequences, including chronic absenteeism. Critics, including @nytimes, argue that the decision to not fully reopen schools by the start of the 2020 school year was a failure, affecting students and parents alike. A Swedish Public Health Agency official emphasized the importance of keeping schools open, opposing the closures as a precautionary measure, a stance that Dr. Fauci and others opposed.
Dr. Fauci and you were wrong about schools. Swedish Public Health Agency official: "'The precautionary principle should be to keep schools open' (rather than closing them as a precautionary measure)." https://t.co/0FsjR0rKSg https://t.co/IgClJKqwkF
It only took four years for @nytimes to realize what many of us knew the minute schools shut down, learning would suffer massively. Any school that wasn’t 100% in person by the start of the 2020 school year failed its students and parents. https://t.co/OwvngARi16
Four years later, students still suffering consequences of COVID school closures Chronic absenteeism is another huge issue in the wake of the pandemic. Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/ZWTerL9N4r
“COVID Lessons Learned: A Retrospective After Four Years” By Stanford's Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Dr. @ScottAtlas_IT, @Comm4Prosperity Pres. Phil @kerpen, Univ. of Chicago Prof. @caseybmulligan, & Johns Hopkins Prof. yours truly. Lesson #5: Shutting Down Schools Was a…
While it's now been 4 years since schools first closed during COVID-19, the school year lost on online and hybrid learning has clearly had a lasting impact on American schoolchildren—one that is likely to echo for years to come. https://t.co/azm8fqZPxG
“Today, there is broad acknowledgment among many public health & education experts that extended school closures did not significantly stop the spread of Covid, while the academic harms for children have been large and long-lasting.” (NYT) HT @bpmehlman https://t.co/4oIliPY7Ec