Skip to content
Covid Call To Humanity
Covid Call To Humanity
  • Home
  • About
  • Navigating the website
  • Global
  • Philippines
  • Perlas Videos and Articles
  • Archives
Covid Call To Humanity

Scientific evidence shows schools can clearly be opened

admin, March 2, 2021April 29, 2021

The following article was published by The BMJ last February 23, 2021. It was written by Sarah Lewis, professor of molecular epidemiology, Alasdair Munro, Senior clinical research fellow pediatric infectious diseases, George Davey Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology, and Allyson Pollock, professor of public health.

In it, the authors stress the need to prioritize the reopening of schools by reviewing the local and international literature showing that schools and children have never been a major source of infection. Moreover, the authors say that even though teachers’ exposure increase with the reopening of schools, the evidence suggests that “teachers and school staff are not at higher risk of hospital admission or death from COVID-19 compared with other workers. Teacher absence because of confirmed COVID-19 in England was similar in primary and secondary schools in the autumn term”.

Editor’s Note: This article is another addition to the growing literature pointing to the fact that school closures were a mistake, and should not have been allowed to drag on for months.

In the Philippines, where the academic year 2020-2021 is coming to a close, plans for face-to-face classes should already be starting as there is no shortage of studies pointing to this fact: there is no reason to prevent children from going back to school.

Read Online

Click the button below if you wish to read the article on the website where it was originally published.

View Website

Read Offline

Click the button below if you wish to read the article offline.

Download PDF

School and Children

Post navigation

Previous post
Next post

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Post Archives

March 2021
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Feb   Apr »

Categories

Archives

share tweet share pin post share
©2025 Covid Call To Humanity | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes