Swedish Public Health Agency guidance helped schools stay open. CDC guidance did the opposite.

The disease control agency‘s March 2020 guidance was an exercise in equivocation.

In March 2020, as governments around the world were essentially panicking in response to the rapidly escalating pandemic, the United States CDC issued a brief document entitled “Considerations for School Closure.” Many individuals might be surprised to learn that the document did not explicitly encourage school districts to shutter their…