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Emily Oster – COVID-19 Interview

Policy@McCombs

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The Impact of Schools on the Epidemic

The one worry is that having schools open up was have on the progression of the epidemic. I think then again, there the evidence is not, well, there's not a lot of evidence. What we have is really just like some guessing and from what we saw in Sweden, for example, in some other places that had schools open earlier,. It doesn't seem to contribute so much for that, that spread, right? Hey, that's right. Yep. So, if we look together would be your sort of assessment that the cost benefit is such that we should be opening schools fully on time this fall.

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