Here's one danger of data:

Child abuse cases are way down during this pandemic. Does that mean there's less child abuse happening? Of course not.

If schools are closed and children are forced to stay home with their abusers, who's going to report them?

In the words of @VPrasadMDMPH:

"Many of you support the US school closures bc of availability bias. You see the harms of the virus, but not the harms of closure."

Follow him and @apsmunro for good insights on schools. https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1362446759545495554

Since Jan 1, 2020, 35,000 kids under the age of 18 died in the US. Just 200 of them involve COVID-19. Out of 500,000 COVID-19 deaths.

We shut down schools for millions of kids for a disease that accounted for less than 1% of all children deaths and 0.04% of all COVID deaths.

We already know that in-person schooling is not the primary driver of community transmission.

Research have also shown that teachers are no more likely to become infected than the parents of the children they taught & are at lower risk than many other essential workers.

So it'd be great if our society can make decisions concerning a topic as important as education based on data and not politics.

Does anyone else see the sad irony that the people most against school openings due to "privilege of being healthy" are also the same people who have the privilege of educating their kids at home?