Why didn’t The New York Times cover this?

It was a pretty big deal.

Yesterday, Norway’s Corona Commission published their final report on the country’s pandemic response. An English-language Norwegian Web site covered the event and noted that the lengthy government report found “authorities failed to do enough to protect children from some of the effects of restrictions, despite this being a government objective.”

The Web site shared a powerful (translated) passage from the report:

“To put it a little simply, we can say that children and young people are worse affected by restrictions than by infections and that there is a difference between what you miss out on over a year when you are 16 compared to when you are 46,” the report states.

In short, the Norwegian government found that, despite the country’s relatively modest restrictions in global context — the Philippines locked children at home for nearly two years and some U.S. cities kept schools closed for nearly 1.5 years — Norway’s restrictions were more harmful to the country’s children than the virus itself.

Coming from one of the world’s most child-friendly governments, this was a remarkable admission. And, given the robust debate in the U.S. about the best way to protect children during the pandemic — including in the pages of The New York Times — one might think that the paper of record would show some interest, if only as a blog post in the paper’s “Covid-19 updates” section.