1/ Quote of the day:
"Kerr in 'Fundamentals of School Health' says: "The Committee of the American Medical Association and the National Education Association reported in 1919 that the closure of schools is an extremely clumsy, unscientific and unsatisfactory method...
"Kerr in 'Fundamentals of School Health' says: "The Committee of the American Medical Association and the National Education Association reported in 1919 that the closure of schools is an extremely clumsy, unscientific and unsatisfactory method...
2/ "...of controlling epidemics among school children. It results no only in loss of school time and money, but it fails to control.... Closure of schools should only be considered as a last resort, and then only for sparsely populated places, ...
3/ "...where aggregation is mostly in school.
Anderson and Arnstein in "Communicable Disease Control," 1948, in discussing poliomyelitis, say: "School closure, as well as closure of moving picture theaters, Sunday schools, and other similar groups, is frequently attempted...
Anderson and Arnstein in "Communicable Disease Control," 1948, in discussing poliomyelitis, say: "School closure, as well as closure of moving picture theaters, Sunday schools, and other similar groups, is frequently attempted...
4/ "...in response to popular demand that 'something be done.' Although tried repeatedly, it is of no proved value, never altering the usual curve of the epidemic: nor has the disease been more prevalent or persistent in those communities w/ the courage to resist those demands."
5/ "'Health in Schools', the 20th Yearbook of the American Assoc. of School Admin's, 1942, opines: "...Where school admin's are faced with public opinion based on misinformation which demands the closing of schools, the situation can usually be met most satisfactorily by...
6/ "...agreeing to close the schools provided children are rigidly excluded from all public places and are kept on their own home premises. This paralyzing alternative usually convinces parents that a properly supervised schools is as safe as any other place, with the possible...
7/ "...exception of the home."
Just ran around town. Schools closed, kids hanging out in a pack outside the pharmacy.
Mass quarantines like school closings don't work because people don't follow them.
They knew this in medical textbooks in 1948, why did we forget?
Just ran around town. Schools closed, kids hanging out in a pack outside the pharmacy.
Mass quarantines like school closings don't work because people don't follow them.
They knew this in medical textbooks in 1948, why did we forget?
8/ Journal of School Health, Should Polio Close Schools? 1951.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
