Another public health success story:
“Today, there is broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts that extended school closures did not significantly stop the spread of Covid, while the academic harms for children have been large and long-lasting,” write Sarah Mervosh, Claire Cain Miller and Francesca Paris in the New York Times.
“For each week spent remote, students in poor districts experienced steeper losses in math than peers in richer districts,” they write. High-poverty districts “were also more likely to stay remote for longer.” Academically, the poor got poorer.
Isolated at home, children experienced more anxiety and depression. They ate more, spiking obesity rates, and exercised less.
Four years after ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ … (joannejacobs.com)
It may have ruined kids’ education but at least it didn’t stop the spread of Covid!
