AAP’s Pediatrics Journal Confirms What We Knew Three Years Ago
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An intriguing aspect to consider about this study is what it doesn’t address. There’s a complete absence of any discussion about how many pediatric hospital... Read more.
Chronic Absenteeism Worse in States That Closed Schools Longer
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This paper is exactly the type of analysis that is crucial to quantifying the effect of Covid Policy response on our children’s education. Unfortunately, it�... Read more.
Two States, Two Job Markets
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It’s well known that employment has impacts on not just an individual’s economic outlook, but their health as well. The idea that we could have somehow ... Read more.
The Dashed Dreams of Digital Learning
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The results we were promised from increased tech adoption, always available learning content, and a device for every child has turned out to be not much more th... Read more.
School Closures in 2020/21: What really happened?
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At the time of this writing, school closures are still occurring, albeit much rarer than last year. I truly hope we can one day put politics aside and do what�... Read more.
What the Media Gets Wrong about Hospitals
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The common thread among all of this coverage is that they all focus on the system, rather than the human. There’s this concept called “capacity” that we a... Read more.
Already in 2020, There Were Signs of Increased Non-Covid Mortality
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Second-order effects on mortality were not measured in real time like SARS-COV2 cases. Why? What we measure matters. What we don’t measure might actually just... Read more.
The Myth of the Disease-Ridden Red States
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The entire proposition is just silly. The concept of innate differences in populations is a well established consideration for those who study population heal... Read more.
The Monkeypox Outbreak of 2003
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Is this how every rare and exotic new pathogenic threat is going to be treated, now that we’ve got everyone’s attention for 2 years of social/political/econ... Read more.
Math Proficiency Rates Show Impact of Prolonged School Closures
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At some point, the people who did this have to face the music and come to grips with what Covid maximalist school policies have wrought. In this case: outright ... Read more.
The Mask Studies You Should Know
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As we finally move past this massive psychological experiment, we should address the secondary effects that masks have had on our society, especially our childr... Read more.
Contra CDC, School Masking Did Not Keep Kids In School
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One of the reasons we were told masks were essential for school kids this year was that masks would reduce the likelihood of school closures, by reducing diseas... Read more.