This is an extremely important article to read about how families can think about the risk to unvaccinated children, after most adults are vaccinate, but in the months or longer it may take until children are vaccinated.
I get the criticism & concern over both the characterization of the risks (an attempt to compare the risk of young children & vaccinated seniors), and the many children (and their relatives) who may have higher risks than the average.
Health & education leaders have all generally come around to the desperate need to open up schools, especially for younger children, due to a rigorous cost-benefit to the children (and their family), especially as teachers & adults get vaccinated.
.@ProfEmilyOster is providing the published statistics on transmission, infections, hospitalization, death for children: her finding are most definitely built on the best available data. I encourage you to read the article not as a proscription of what to do for your family ...
But, read the article to kick off a necessary conversation of how you may adjust your life with small children, when the adults in their lives are vaccinated. What risks you are willing to take for what benefits as we approach the potentially long wait for children's vaccines.
Finally, you may disagree w/ her conclusions, but there are few people in the world more qualified to talk about costs & benefits of behaviors in health than @ProfEmilyOster whose stellar academic career is all about digesting health research & translating that to decision making

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21 Mar
I am tired of mainstream media reporting all of the excuses the misogynistic, racist terrorist gives for murdering 8 people, including 6 Asian women.
Mainstream media & “public intellectuals” also obsessed w/ defending police who push the terrorist’s defenses: lying about his racism, sex addition, etc. Problem not subtlety of how @atrupar or others cover police’s remarks, but why police are spreading the terrorist’s propaganda
Confident that if this terrorist was a minority race or religion, police would not take him at his word on his motives, and report to US about his feelings (he was having a bad day? I don’t care, because I am not sympathetic to him one bit) on the day he murdered 8 people.
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An otherwise dedicated public servant, Dr. Birx should not be unfairly maligned because she spent the first 8 months of deadly crisis undermining public health, by spreading dangerous disinformation, in order to ingratiate herself with anti-science Dear Leader.
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I was finally persuaded by the Twitter conversation to turn on #OprahMeghanHarry, and damn this is dark and interesting.
First, and foremost, so critical to spread message that it is OK to seek help for mental health issues when you need it.
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Senator Romney, only Republican to vote to hold Don Trump accountable in his first impeachment, was basically alone heading towards armed mob when Officer Goodman turned him around: anyone really want to argue they would not have physically harmed him?
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