A new study shows that, contrary to GOP mythmaking, lockdowns reduced the spread of COVID, saving millions of lives worldwide. Ron DeSantis calls that 'a mistake.'
The idea that it was virtuous to reopen schools in the heat of the pandemic is based on a concatenation of myths beloved by conservative politicians that, unfortunately, have seeped into the public debate about pandemic countermeasures across the partisan spectrum.
There’s the myth that school closings and the shift to remote teaching was almost entirely responsible for the decline in test scores. The evidence for that is murky at best. It’s contradicted, for example, by comparing the Florida experience with that of California, where most districts weren’t cleared to reopen until April 2021., when 2022 national test scores were released, Florida’s kids lost more ground in reading and math than California’s.
Several factors other than school closings may have accounted for the achievement decline during the pandemic. One is the general social disruption caused by the pandemic, which schoolchildren surely felt almost as acutely as their parents.lost a primary or secondary caregiverFlorida has ranked third among states in the absolute number of children who lost a primary or secondary caregiver, after California and Texas.
Who brought COVID into these households? In a shocking number of cases, it was children. According to a peer-reviewed study published in June of about 39,000 COVID cases in 166,000 U.S. households,Importantly, the transmission rate
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