Top Norwegian Doctor: Pandemic school closures were “not necessary” and “probably should not have been done”

Anthony LaMesa
4 min readJul 7, 2022

Norway’s National Institute of Public Health opposed pandemic school closures

Despite school closures that lasted weeks — with plans made to reopen just two weeks after schools first closed — and not months or years, like in many other countries, prominent Norwegian doctors and health experts have consistently questioned the wisdom of even brief closures. The latest Norwegian doctor to speak out is

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