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Dr. Scott Atlas: Science Demands That Schools Reopen

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Scott Atlas joined Ben Domenech to discuss the data surrounding schools reopening and the dangers of not following the science. Atlas is a fellow in scientific philosophy and public policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a member of Hoover's Working Group on Health Care Policy, and the former head of neuroradiology at Stanford Medical School.

Atlas laid out multiple points of scientific evidence indicating the necessity of reopening schools. This included the documented facts that children are young people are at low risk of developing COVID-19 themselves and they're at low risk of spreading it to others. Furthermore, he said, school closures are extremely harmful to children's health in different ways, especially in that distance learning has proven to be a failure.

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Ben Domenech