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Teacher Kristen Giuliano assists her class of in-person and distance learners, September 24, 2020, at Dodd Middle School in Cheshire, Connecticut. (Dave Zajac/Record-Journal via AP)

Why Reopening Schools Has Become the Most Fraught Debate of the Pandemic

Popular writers and academics have dismissed words of caution from epidemiologists about coronavirus transmission among children.

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