The Debate About School Reopening, Explained

It’s not looking good for the U.S.

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
3 min readJul 15, 2020

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The question of whether schools can and should reopen in the fall is becoming fraught. While so far the research suggests that children are not at a high risk of getting severe Covid-19, there are still several risks.

Increasing data has suggested that while children can get Covid-19, if they do get it…

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that