Dr. Oz apologizes for saying reopening schools is an "appetizing opportunity" because it would only kill 2-3% more people

That study is flawed. It models children behavior based on past school closings which ended up increasing non-school social contacts of the community by 25%. However unlike past outbreaks, the coronavirus is shutting everything down. Children not going to school really are being taken out of circulation. The study also only assumed 25% of universities were shut down, where now its a lot closer to 100%. In short, our lockdown is a lot more thorough than what the study assumed.

They modelled a scenario in which all schools and 25% of universities were closed and where the effect on non-school social contacts was an increase of 50% in household contact rates for families with children and a 25% increase in community contacts during the closure. They concluded that school closure as an isolated measure was predicted to reduce total deaths by around 2–4% during a COVID-19 outbreak in the UK

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30095-X/fulltext

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