What happened in non-US countries when they opened schools

How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us

The article is long about transmission rates, but from what I can tell, non of these models have been tested extensively to show how to open schools with a zero or near-zero rate of transmission. It just seems to be guidelines with the caveat that, since kids have effectively been out of the public for months, none of these transmission numbers are reflective of what would happen in a full reopening.

"Norway and Denmark are good examples. Both reopened their schools in April, a month or so after they were closed, but they initially opened them only for younger children, keeping high schools shut until later. They strengthened sanitizing procedures, and have kept class size limited, children in small groups at recess and space between desks. Neither country has seen a significant increase in cases."

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"But there have been school-based outbreaks in countries with higher community infection levels and countries that apparently eased safety guidelines too soon. In Israel, the virus infected more than 200 students and staff after schools reopened in early May and lifted limits on class size a few weeks later, according to a report by University of Washington researchers."

I would say that the US has many communities with outbreaks where is would be incredibly irresponsible to open schools again, in any in-person capacity.

Here's the University of Washington paper the NYTimes is quoting

Submitted July 13, 2020 at 01:50PM by boundfortrees https://ift.tt/3frjmtu