Jay Bhattacharya on school closures: warns against

Bhattacharya warns against school closures during pandemics — a position from his Great Barrington Declaration-era advocacy (October 2020) that he reiterated in his COVID-lessons interviews, including the September 2026 RealClear “Takeaway” interview with Maggie Miller (per the ABC News February 2026 summary of the GBD’s position). His stated reasoning is that children faced the lowest risk from COVID-19 while bearing heavy developmental, educational, and social costs from closures — part of the broader argument that pandemic policy should have concentrated protection on high-risk groups rather than imposing blanket restrictions.

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