New study shows that covid school closures affected cognitive and motor development in preschoolers. Learning loss is most pronounced in kids most at risk. We must focus on keeping kids in school and on closing educational disparities. @biannagolodryga https://t.co/mlKm1j5kjY pic.twitter.com/mVhJTWGbmI

— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) February 23, 2022

AGHouston11 said:

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Democrats have always been great at destroying education for minorities and inner city youth!

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Invincible Aggie said:

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Not good enough. She'll still need to serve time in prison.

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Global estimates of the implications of COVID-19-related preprimary school closures for children's instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing
Dana C. McCoy,Jorge Cuartas,Jere Behrman,Claudia Cappa,Jody Heymann,Florencia Lpez Bo,Chunling Lu,Abbie Raikes,Linda Richter,Alan Stein,Gnther Fink
First published: 25 August 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13658
Child Development

...Collectively, the results of this paper suggest that the negative consequences of ECCE [early childhood care and education] closures during the COVID-19 pandemic will likely be large and lasting. .... there is increasing consensus among the public health community that young children are less likely to be infected and impacted by the COVID-19 virus than adolescents or adults (Wu & McGoogan, 2020). Given this, experts have increasingly argued that decisions to close down educational services should be made not only based on issues related to public health, but also on the potential instructional, developmental, educational, and economic consequences of these shutdowns (Esposito & Principi, 2020).....

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School readiness losses during the COVID-19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children
Meliza Gonzlez,Tianna Loose,Maite Liz,Mnica Prez,Juan I. Rodrguez-Vinon,Clementina Toms-Llerena ,Alejandro Vsquez-Echeverra
First published: 23 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13738
Child Development

.....Based on our findings, we can draw the general conclusion that the COVID-19 pandemic harmed multiple domains of childhood development, especially within cognitive and motor domains. Inequalities in school readiness already present in the Uruguayan population (Vsquez-Echeverra et al., 2021) appear to have been exacerbated, as children living in the most privileged districts were more protected from the impact of the COVID crisis, and children who were already struggling at age 4 before the onset of the pandemic suffered the most compared to their expected trajectory.....

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Bronco6G said:

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At what point can we call all these "unintended consequences", intentional? This has been known for quite some time.

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Ragoo said:

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This isn't so much an admission but a new narrative to assume power and drive ideology.

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Maroon Dawn said:

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More like massive gas lighting where they pretend they've always been the champions of getting your kids back to school and normalcy instead of the ones preventing it for the last 2 years

Hell by summer the gas lighting will be so intense they'll swear they never supported masks, lockdowns or mandates and fought against the evil Republicans trying to force those things on you

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