It’s really something of a scientific miracle.
But with this miraculous success has come a slew of arguments. Should we be going with the most clinically efficacious vaccine that will block more transmission? What about herd immunity – which vaccine will provide us with the most protection long term?
To an extent, these discussions are important. Despite the early stage of the worldwide vaccine rollout, there is some data that certain vaccines have proven more effective in the short term against both the initial virus and its variants. If our aim is to keep Australia from having any disease outbreaks at all, as we have done so well with our Covid-19 restrictions, there’s a reasonable debate to be had about which vaccine we want to use.
Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues
at 4:00 am NPR
In November, I reported for NPR on a scientific paper that estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. â far more, in fact, than might be lost by keeping schools open. The paper has since been corrected and critiqued. The central question it tried to answer remains.
The paper s author, Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician at Seattle Children s Hospital, editor of the American Medical Association journal JAMA Pediatrics and an outspoken advocate of opening schools when possible to protect children s well-being. He told NPR recently that he wrote the paper to flesh out his argument:
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In November, I reported for NPR on a scientific paper that estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. far more, in fact, than might be lost by keeping schools open. The paper has since been corrected and critiqued. The central question it tried to answer remains.
The paper’s author, Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital, editor of the American Medical Association journal
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Originally published on January 31, 2021 9:55 pm
In November, I reported for NPR on a scientific paper that estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. far more, in fact, than might be lost by keeping schools open. The paper has since been corrected and critiqued. The central question it tried to answer remains.
The paper s author, Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician at Seattle Children s Hospital, editor of the American Medical Association journal
JAMA Pediatrics and an outspokenadvocate of opening schools when possible to protect children s well-being. He told NPR recently that he wrote the paper to flesh out his argument:
In November, a scientific paper estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. The paper has since been corrected and critiqued.