UK government health advisers say missing school is greater risk to kids than COVID

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The chief medical officers of the United Kingdom have said children should return to school after the summer holidays, warning that missing out on their education posed much bigger risks to them than catching COVID-19.

FILE PHOTO: A child gestures in a classroom at Watlington Primary School during the last day of school, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Watlington , Britain, July 17, 2020. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Confidence in the government’s approach to schooling during the coronavirus pandemic took a hit last week when education minister Gavin Williamson was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over examination results. Evidence showed that a lack of schooling increased inequalities, reduced opportunities and could exacerbate physical and mental health issues, the statement said.

“The percentage of symptomatic cases requiring hospitalisation is estimated to be 0.1% for children aged 0-9 and 0.3% among those aged 10-19, compared to a hospitalisation rate of over 4% in the UK for the general population,” the statement said.

 

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That’s bs. Kids can die of covid. Not many die from staying home.

All parents agree I’m sure So what’s the strategy for ensuring that they can stay open long term?

Are our politicians hearing it

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Being ill and dying is greater risk.

Bullshit! DEATH IS PERMANENR!

Well the decline of the British Empire continues on schedule, I see.

How can You Trust & Believe a Country UK where everybody got bad Teeth!

Well, now, isn't that just sweet of 'em? Right. Let's just push those voiceless, voteless children into risky situations & wring our hands when they get sick or die or their parents do. That's a whole different kind of education.

Who has a classroom like this? fordnation Sflecce have okayed up to 30 students in our classrooms. UnsafeSeptemberON

Its the TRUTH

How? Dhow any Evidence & Proof like I got , My Kids on 2000 missed One Year of School because I moved from USA to another Country and back to US 2001 and Now , They are Engineer, Business Manager , Teacher, Nurse and Computer Programmer on The US Navy!

긴급돌봄---복지국가의 실현에 도움 옛조상들은 유모인듯 초등학교 여교사님 특별초빙(50세-65세)로 해보세요(초등학교 부설겸 예비학교)---가장좋은 버젼이 될듯---어린이 폭력이 거의 없을듯

Please do a study about the risks that opening schools poses to teachers and parents

Missing school doesn't kill children, COVID-19 does!

We as a species are screwed lookaround

yes they miss interaction, miss fun, miss learnings, miss peer learning, miss overall development, miss centered learning . But online edu help them to be socialising, getting angry, distracted to other tech worlds specially gaming.They need a special session just when reopening

This is nuts, there has been a push to get kids back in school since lockdown began. Why? Workers won't go back to jobs without childcare. School = state funded childcare. Get kids in school = no excuses for not going to office. The economy is worth more than YOUR health.

Agreed

Smart people find alternatives. Dumb people insist on doing the same thing, regardless of the risk. Kids may survive, but they infect teachers, their sibling, their parents and grandparents. At least the child survived and can be adopted.

Right because a bunch of teenagers learning pointless things like pythagoras theorem and outdated colonialism is sooo much more important than the lives of themselves and their older family members... seriously this country has lost the plot.

do they know that COVID is a disease you get that can kill you? Like has anyone told them?

OK, how about their parents and grandparents who take care of them when they come home?

I can give you a thousand reasons why it’s not

Asian countires go to school... whute trash countires omit school... now u know why asians are smrter than white people

Open the schools now!

they said it; they can't unsay it.

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