Gov. Andy Beshear’s recent recommendation to delay school reopening is not rooted in science. Closing classrooms, as numerous other states across the country have done, marks peak pandemic paranoia of a virus that one expert estimates kills 0.13% of those it infects outside nursing homes.
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To date, roughly 50 children under the age of 15 have died from COVID-19 nationwide — fewer than from the common flu. Only one person under the age of 30 in Kentucky has died of this disease.
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Schools are just as important as essential businesses, so why aren’t they treated as such? It’s time to recalibrate our fear of this virus that has a 99.9% survival rate outside nursing homes. Reopening classrooms is the first step.
Read the full op-ed on the Courier-Journal by Dr. Molly Rutherford, who runs the Bluegrass Family Wellness and is a partner of the Job Creators Network Foundation.