CLOSING SCHOOLS TO PROTECT KIDS MADE THEM SICK
Dec 17, 2021
3 minutes
PAMELA HOBART
NOT LONG AGO, parents spent time and energy worrying about contagious diseases other than COVID-19: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); hand, foot, and mouth disease; strep throat; and even the boring old flu. But the default standards for “safety” haphazardly narrowed and heightened as COVID-19 burst onto the scene. Lockdowns, school closures, and other restrictions substantially limited people’s access to each other.
There was one apparent silver lining to all this
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