The Blaze article headline:
"New York Times admits the truth about COVID school closures and the long-term harms of fear-based decision-making"
The New York Times article it's referring to:
The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.
www.nytimes.com
Headline:
"The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid."
Article body:
"A variety of data — about children’s academic outcomes and about the spread of Covid-19 — has accumulated in the time since. 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."
"In the future, infectious disease experts said, they hoped decisions would be guided more by epidemiological data as it emerged, taking into account the trade-offs.
“Could we have used data to better guide our decision making? Yes,” said Dr. Uzma N. Hasan, division chief of pediatric infectious diseases at RWJBarnabas Health in Livingston, N.J. “Fear should not guide our decision making.”
www.theblaze.com
