"DeSantis...called his detractors "flat-earthers" (about closing schools due to pandemic)

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7. Should Schools Stay Open? Not So Fast (article)

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-12-02/shut-them-down-why-schools-might-not-be-safe-during-covid-19

ON THANKSGIVING DAY, The COVID Monitor – our database tracking coronavirus cases in K-12 schools – showed there had been nearly 250,000 student and staff cases across the United States since Aug. 1.

That's more cases than in every U.S. state combined from January to April 1 of this year.

In fact, more than 1 million children have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States alone.

Yet the research on cases in U.S. schools remains limited. Inaccurate, unproven claims have filled the data gap, aiming to assuage anxieties about reopening schools for in-person classes, with seemingly little regard for the potential impacts the virus may have on the students, staff and communities affected by such choices.