"COVID Transmission In N.H. Schools is Minimal. Should They Stay Open Amid The Surge?" (Commentary by Emily Oster)
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster, on NHPR: "I think we need to say, let's draw some guidelines about what we would see and when. So if we start seeing transmission in schools, if we start seeing rates in schools that exceed the community rates, if we start seeing evidence that, you know, schools themselves are driving the community, those are the kinds of things I would like to be paying attention to."
November 23, 2020 NHPR
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster, on NHPR: "I think we need to say, let's draw some guidelines about what we would see and when. So if we start seeing transmission in schools, if we start seeing rates in schools that exceed the community rates, if we start seeing evidence that, you know, schools themselves are driving the community, those are the kinds of things I would like to be paying attention to."