[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

It shouldn't even be a question at this point as to whether schools will start in the fall. It just sounds like more fear mongering.

Especially considering that closing schools now apparently has had minimal impact on stoping the spread of the virus.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/healt...ntl/index.html

School closures may only have a small effect on stopping coronavirus, study says

Schools around the world have been shut to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but one team of scientists is questioning whether the havoc the closures are causing to millions of people is actually worth it -- suggesting that the impact on the pandemic might be smaller than previously thought.

A new study by researchers at University College London said recent modeling studies of Covid-19 suggest that school closures alone would prevent only 2% to 4% of deaths -- far fewer than other social distancing interventions.
The research, published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health medical journal late on Monday, reviewed 16 studies looking at past epidemics of SARS, MERS and seasonal flu, as well as others modeling the spread of the novel coronavirus, and found that the evidence to support national closures of schools to combat Covid-19 is "very weak."

"Data from the SARS outbreak in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore suggest that school closures did not contribute to the control of the epidemic," the researchers said.