A century ago, at the height of the 1918 to 1922 Spanish flu pandemic, which took 50 million lives worldwide, schools were shuttered for three years. To open or not to openWell, for starters, idling nearly 30 million students and some 900,000 teachers, plus driving countless private schools out of business, may not really do that much to control Covid-19. Moreover, computer models predicted that closing schools would prevent 2 to 4 percent of Covid-19 deaths, far less than other distancing measures(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30095-X/fulltext). It also outlines age-specific health education for preschool, primary, lower and upper secondary levels. With strict distancing, hygiene and disinfection, plus new-normal transport, reopening schools may actually help contain Covid-19 better than leaving restless kids home.

Source: Manila Times May 27, 2020 16:21 UTC