Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues
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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. 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.
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Since 2016, around 25,000 pupils in years 4-6 in 86 of Denmark s municipalities have taken part in the project 11 for Health in Denmark , an 11-week exercise and health education programme offered to all schools in a collaboration between the University of Southern Denmark and the Danish Football Association.
More than 3,000 of these pupils completed questionnaires before and after the programme aimed at determining their knowledge about health and understanding their experience of the 11-week programme.