When will Sweden get an apology?

Germany’s health minister is latest official to admit school closures were a “mistake.”

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is not someone who could be accused of minimizing the danger of Covid — he engages with self-described Covid alarmist Dr. Eric Ding on Twitter, attacked fall 2022 Oktoberfest planners for not mandating rapid tests, and supported public transport mask mandates into 2023.

Nonetheless, even Lauterbach admitted yesterday that extended pandemic school closures were “not correct” and that it was wrong to assume there would be significant infections in daycare centers and schools.

In the German press, Lauterbach acknowledged other countries handled schools “somewhat differently” and set “different priorities,” which was perhaps a reference to Sweden, a country that kept primary and lower secondary schools — those serving children up to 16-years-old — open throughout the pandemic, including in March 2020…