If the last few months in the US had included a coordinated and coherent pandemic response, we would not now be wrestling with the prospect of sending students into classrooms as a nation-wide improvised clinical trial in which no one can realistically give informed consent.
We can’t really know what will happen because no other country has opened schools and universities in the midst of such rampant community spread.
There is, of course, a reason for that.
There is, of course, a reason for that.
From NYT: “No nation has tried to send children back to school with the virus raging at levels like America’s, and the scientific research about transmission in classrooms is limited.”
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The article above is regarding schools with young children. For universities, it’s a different matter, and the science is much more clear. Spread will happen, and is happening already. The measures needed to prevent it are not even on the table.
