23.02.2021 Keeping schools open should be the UK’s top priority. Some 8.8 million schoolchildren in the UK have experienced severe disruption to their education, with prolonged school closures and national exams cancelled for two consecutive years. School closures have been implemented internationally1 with insufficient evidence for their role in minimising covid-19 transmission and insufficient consideration of the harms to children.
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n521