New York Times admits the truth about COVID school closures and the long-term harms of fear-based decision-making | Blaze Media

New York Times admits the truth about COVID school closures and the long-term harms of fear-based decision-making | Blaze Media: 

The New York Times is admitting to the extensive, long-term damage of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on schoolchildren and their learning. Four years after politicians shut down schools, the New York Times published a new analysis on Monday admitting there is "broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts" that school closures significantly harmed children despite not stopping the spread of COVID-19. Relying on the most recent data about pandemic learning loss, the Times drew several conclusions about why school closures were bad policy.