New studies from Germany, Norway and the U.S. offer yet more data to show that childcare facilities and elementary schools should remain open or re-open to full-time, in-person learning as quickly as possible. Despite these research findings, schools across the US have largely been closed to in-person learning since the pandemic reached critical mass in the U.S. in March 2020. On today’s episode, we are going to talk through these recent studies and the advocacy needed to support the re-opening of schools to full-time, in-person learning.

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2026670

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090

Today we are joined by returning guest Dr. Sean O’Leary, an Infectious Disease physician at Children’s Colorado and Director of the Colorado Pediatric Practice-Based Research Network. Sean is also a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics and can regularly be found being interviewed and quoted in the New York Times, C-SPAN, PBS and CNN to name a few.

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