"The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education."
While it is a priority to mitigate its immediate impact, we want to call attention to the pandemic's longer‐term effect on children's health: COVID, via these school closures, may exacerbate the epidemic of childhood obesity and increase disparities in obesity risk. In many areas of the U...
gain weight at a faster rate during summer vacations compared to the school year, said Angela Luciani, a registered dietitian in Philadelphia. Researchers believe this is largely because the food that kids eat at home may be less nutritious than the food offered at school. ...
(HealthDay)—Older children, Black and Hispanic children, and children from families with lower income who attended school remotely during the pandemic in 2020 experienced disproportionate mental health difficulties, according to a study published online Sept. 3 in JAMA Network Open. Matt Hawrilenko,...
, the estimated associations may have been markedly different. Fourth, the study design and analysis are consistent with association and not causation. All of these limitations create challenges for using these estimates to predict the potential effect of school closures in the coming school year....
"The risks to children from COVID are very low and the risks of school closures we know are very serious," Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a member of a key British government advisory group, told The Sunday Times in reference to the resea...
This population epidemiology study estimates associations of school closures in the US and the timing of those closures in March 2020 with change in daily
UNICEF noted that the school closures did not help in the fight against COVID-19, but simply removed a system that provides children with support, food and safety as well as learning. /VCG Some 320 million children globally have been locked out of school due to the COVID...
Learning crisis, rising poverty and child brides in Uganda; Covid school closures blamed Save the Childrensaid. Source:Borgen Project In March 2020, all schools across the country shut down as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. Since then, Uganda has kept schools fully or partly closed, ...
School staff survey a classroom in preparation for the upcoming start of school on September 2, 2021 in New York City. The number of school closures due to COVID-19 is increasing alongside pediatric infections as the country's public school system fully reopens – in many places ...