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Experts are recommending schools reopen.

HiddenRoar posted... https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/effects-of-isolation-are-surfacing-pediatricians-call-for-return-to-school-1.5012527

TORONTO -- Pediatricians south of the border are recommending that kids go back to school in September, wearing cloth masks, staying in small groups, maintaining distance from each other, and riding buses in assigned seats.
The Canadian Paediatric Society is also urging a return to classrooms in the fall, but stops short of giving specific recommendations for how schools should look.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says children should be outside whenever possible, desks should be 1 metre to 2 metres apart and students should be guided to wash their hands regularly and to spread out during singing and exercising.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/coronavirus-schools-reopening-guidelines-aap.html

The American Academy of Pediatrics has a reputation as conservative and cautious, which is what you would expect from an organization devoted to protecting childrens health. But this week, the academy made a splash with advice about reopening schools that appears to be somewhat at odds with what administrators are hearing from some federal and state health officials.
But the academys guidelines strongly recommend that students be physically present in school as much as possible, and emphasize that there are major health, social and educational risks to keeping children at home. Dr. Sean OLeary, a pediatrics infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, helped write the academys guidelines.
The academy guidelines place a big emphasis on the importance of physical school over remote learning. Can you summarize why?
As pediatricians, many of us have recognized already the impact that having schools closed even for a couple months had on children. At the same time, a lot of us are parents. We experienced our own kids doing online learning. There really wasnt a lot of learning happening. Now were seeing studies documenting this. Kids being home led to increases in behavioral health problems. There were reports of increased rates of abuse.

What we have seen so far in the literature and anecdotally, as well is that kids really do seem to be both less likely to catch the infection and less likely to spread the infection. It seems to be even more true for younger kids, under 10 or under 12. And older kids seem to play less of a role than adults.
Here in Colorado, Ive been following our state health department website very closely. They update data every day and include the outbreaks in the state they are investigating. As you can imagine, there are lots and lots in long-term care facilities and skilled nursing homes, some in restaurants and grocery stores. There have been a total of four in child care centers, and we do have a lot of child care centers open. In almost every one of those cases, transmission was between two adults. The kids in the centers are not spreading Covid-19. Im hearing the same thing from other states, as well.

From our perspective as pediatricians, the downsides of having kids at home versus in school are outweighed by the small incremental gain you would get from having kids six feet apart as opposed to five, four or three. When you add into that other mitigation measures like mask wearing, particularly for older kids, and frequent hand washing, you can bring the risk down.

Reopening schools is so important for the kids, but really for the entire community. So much of our world relies on kids being in school and parents being able to work. Trying to work from home with the kids home is disproportionately impacting women. So it goes beyond just the health of the child, which is, of course, very important. As a country, we should be doing everything we can right now, for lots of reasons, to make sure we can safely reopen schools in the fall.