Thread by @DeAngelisCorey

I contacted the Washington Post 12 days ago to request a correction.

They still haven't responded.

https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1318909195027177473

The Washington Post said "the disproportionate number of teachers appearing in covid-19 obituaries is striking."

The author has not provided any evidence of disproportionate representation.

This unsubstantiated statement should be corrected @washingtonpost.

Here is the Washington Post article with the unsubstantiated claim:
google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

"Sweden never shut its schools, and teachers there have had the same fatality rate during this pandemic as IT technicians, who can often work from home."
wsj.com/articles/end-t…

From the same Sweden study:

"One other finding worth discussing on its own is the low COVID-19 mortality risk of children’s and adolescents’ teachers"
su.figshare.com/articles/prepr…

WSJ cites Brown University's Emily Oster:

"Her data—covering almost 200,000 kids across 47 states from the last two weeks of September—showed a Covid-19 case rate of 0.13% among students and 0.24% among staff [...] By comparison, the current overall U.S. case rate is 2.6%"

Brown University's Emily Oster discussed the data in The Atlantic:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

New York Times: "Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say" nytimes.com/2020/10/22/hea…

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