With schools set to resume after the holiday break and local officials cracking down on teachers unions across the US, we're unlocking one of our recent favorites: an in-depth discussion on what the school reopening debate has gotten miserably wrong. If you like this episode, support us if you can at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.

The Panel is joined by epidemiologists Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman to discuss why politicians have almost universally pushed to keep schools open during the pandemic, how little we actually know about the potential impact of these decisions, and just how bad the "data" is that self-styled experts like Emily Oster hang their arguments on.

Abby Cartus is a PhD in perinatal epidemiology.

Justin Feldman is an epidemiologist of social inequality and state violence and a Health & Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard. You can follow him on Twitter @jfeldman_epi

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