Make In-Person Learning Option Available

The CDC stated that the risk of complications for healthy children is higher for flu compared to COVID-19 [1]. The majority of the children with COVID-19 exhibit no or mild symptoms [2]. It is extraordinarily rare for children, especially healthy ones, to die from COVID-19 [3][4]. Even during the peak of the pandemic COVID-19 caused 0.8% of the deaths among children between 5 and 14 in the US, and children in this age range were 16 times more likely to die from unintentional injury than from COVID-19 [5].

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Incidence rates among students were virtually identical in Sweden, where schools stayed open, and Finland, where schools were closed. Teachers in Sweden were not exposed to a higher level of risks compared to other occupations [6]. The European Center of Disease Control stated that child to child transmission in schools is uncommon and not the primary cause of COVID-19 infection in children. Observational data suggest that re-opening schools has not been associated with significant increases in community transmission [7] as child-to-child and child-to-adult transmission is far less likely than adult-to-child transmission [8].

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COVID-19 is causing a national mental health crisis [9]. Mental well-being of families with children has been hit especially hard by this pandemic [10][11]. The longer we keep the children out of school the more difficult it will be for them to re-integrate into the school learning environment.

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As concluded by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the academic, physical and mental upsides associated with returning children to schools outweighs the risks [12]. We have already learned to protect the most vulnerable, seniors and those with underlying conditions, from COVID-19, and the time has come to put school first and foremost. The failure to do right by our young cannot be allowed to continue.

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