Three astonishing admissions yesterday by head of @AFTunion, Randi Weingarten, who for past 8 months has pushed harder than anyone for remote learning:
#1: "Remote education for most kids does not work"
Experts (and kids) said this back in April
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#2: Hybrid learning is a failed model for kids, and is untenable for teachers
Yet untrue framing: 1-Safeguards exceeding those in Europe were already advised by CDC, state DOHs. 2-School mass testing has not been in place in most of US or Europe, yet school transmission has been below community rates
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22 European countries reopened schools in the spring and twice––1 month, and 2 months later––said doing so didn't contribute to national infection rates
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NYT editorial page coming out hard for schools to remain open
👉At this point (some blue state) politicians are way behind both the MSM and the scientific community. Not sure what it will take to move the needle /1
@JAMA_current hosted a debate on the Great Barrington Declaration between @mlipsitch and Jay Bhattacharya.
There was one thing both guests and the host agreed upon:
Keep Schools Open
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"Schools should remain open in almost all circumstances"
-Marc Lipsitch, Harvard epidemiologist, against GBD
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MAJOR THREAD: This Israel article is going to alter the debate about schools. It has a lot of useful information, but its framing, and its title (which is the only thing many will read) distorts reality
FIRST: Israel opened nearly EVERYTHING around the same time. Singling schools out is like seeing a packed highway and pointing to one car and saying "This traffic is all their fault!"