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The Washington Post said "the disproportionate number of teachers appearing in covid-19 obituaries is striking."
The author has not provided any evidence of disproportionate representation.
This unsubstantiated statement should be corrected @washingtonpost.
The author has not provided any evidence of disproportionate representation.
This unsubstantiated statement should be corrected @washingtonpost.
From today's WSJ:
"Sweden never shut its schools, and teachers there have had the same fatality rate during this pandemic as IT technicians, who can often work from home." https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-the-school-shutdown-11603235888?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/27Q8oDGqD8
"Sweden never shut its schools, and teachers there have had the same fatality rate during this pandemic as IT technicians, who can often work from home." https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-the-school-shutdown-11603235888?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/27Q8oDGqD8
From the same Sweden study:
"One other finding worth discussing on its own is the low COVID-19 mortality risk of children’s and adolescents’ teachers" https://su.figshare.com/articles/preprint/Deaths_in_the_frontline_Occupation-specific_COVID-19_mortality_risks_in_Sweden/12816065/2
"One other finding worth discussing on its own is the low COVID-19 mortality risk of children’s and adolescents’ teachers" https://su.figshare.com/articles/preprint/Deaths_in_the_frontline_Occupation-specific_COVID-19_mortality_risks_in_Sweden/12816065/2
WSJ cites Brown University's Emily Oster:
"Her data—covering almost 200,000 kids across 47 states from the last two weeks of September—showed a Covid-19 case rate of 0.13% among students and 0.24% among staff [...] By comparison, the current overall U.S. case rate is 2.6%"
"Her data—covering almost 200,000 kids across 47 states from the last two weeks of September—showed a Covid-19 case rate of 0.13% among students and 0.24% among staff [...] By comparison, the current overall U.S. case rate is 2.6%"
Brown University's Emily Oster discussed the data in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/616669/
Here is the Washington Post article with the unsubstantiated claim: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/09/reopen-dc-schools-without-walls-trogisch-fired/%3foutputType=amp
