Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: governments must balance the uncertainty and risks of reopening schools against the clear harms associated with prolonged closure

Affiliations

¹ Population, Policy and Practice Research Programme, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK r.viner@ucl.ac.uk.
² Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ Faculty of Education, Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
⁵ Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁶ Child and Adolescent Health, WHO, Geneve, Switzerland.
⁷ UCL Institute of Education, University College London Institute of Education, London, UK.
⁸ Centre for Adolescent Health, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Russell M Viner et al. Arch Dis Child. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb;106(2):111-113.

doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319963. Epub 2020 Aug 3.

¹ Population, Policy and Practice Research Programme, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK r.viner@ucl.ac.uk.
² Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ Faculty of Education, Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
⁵ Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁶ Child and Adolescent Health, WHO, Geneve, Switzerland.
⁷ UCL Institute of Education, University College London Institute of Education, London, UK.
⁸ Centre for Adolescent Health, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Keywords: Adolescent Health; Epidemiology; Psychology.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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