COVID-19, Children and schools

An important consideration is what role the children have in the spread of the virus and what the consequences are to keep the schools open vs closed. Including the Norwegian evaluation demonstrating a cost of 1.7 billion NOK/day to close the schools.

COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in COVID-19 transmission, by ECDC
Jf, Ludvigsson. ‘Children Are Unlikely to Be the Main Drivers of the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Systematic Review’. Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992). Acta Paediatr, August 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15371.
‘Systematic Review of COVID-19 in Children Shows Milder Cases and a Better Prognosis than Adults’. Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992). Acta Paediatr, June 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15270

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		Fretheim, Atle, Martin Flatø, Anneke Steens, Signe Agnes Flottorp, Christopher James Rose, Kjetil Elias Telle, Jonas Minet Kinge, and Per Everhard Schwarze. “COVID-19: We Need Randomised Trials of School Closures.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, September 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214262. Andresen, Martin E. ‘Hva koster det å stenge utdanningssektoren? Beregning av kostnader av smittevernstiltak mot COVID-19 for humankapital, studieprogresjon og produktivitet’,	Thorell, Lisa, Charlotte Borg Skoglund, Almudena Giménez de la Peña, Dieter Baeyens, Anselm Fuermaier, Madeleine Groom, Irene Mammarella, et al. “Psychosocial Effects of Homeschooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences between Seven European Countries and between Children with and without Mental Health Conditions,” September 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/68pfx.