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Editorial
. 2021 Feb 23:372:n521.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.n521.

Closing schools is not evidence based and harms children

Sarah J Lewis  1 , Alasdair P S Munro  2 , George Davey Smith  1 , Allyson M Pollock  3
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Editorial

Closing schools is not evidence based and harms children

Sarah J Lewis et al. BMJ. .
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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: SL has campaigned for schools to be reopened during the pandemic. AM was the lead fellow in commercial studies of vaccines and antibiotics funded by Merck Sharpe and Dohme, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, AstraZeneca, Novavax, and Valneva.

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