"Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders" (Written by Emily Oster)
"These numbers are not zero, which for some people means the numbers are not good enough. But zero was never a realistic expectation. We know that children can get COVID-19, even if they do tend to have less serious cases. Even if there were no spread in schools, we’d see some cases, because students and teachers can contract the disease off campus. But the numbers are small—smaller than what many had forecasted," says Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster.
October 9, 2020 The Atlantic
"These numbers are not zero, which for some people means the numbers are not good enough. But zero was never a realistic expectation. We know that children can get COVID-19, even if they do tend to have less serious cases. Even if there were no spread in schools, we’d see some cases, because students and teachers can contract the disease off campus. But the numbers are small—smaller than what many had forecasted," says Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster.