It is not only children who at at risk at school | Letters

Recent research that suggests school closures have a limited impact on the spread of Covid-19 among children forgets about their teachers, writes Jeremy Taylor. Plus letters from Caiti Walter and Penny McCulloch

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As a teacher and a parent, I was shocked by your report (School closures likely to have little impact on spread of coronavirus, study finds, 7 April). The authors of the study discussed in it clearly have little understanding of how schools actually work.

The study seems to assume the only people in schools are children. A typical secondary school has about 100 teaching staff and about 100 support staff. That’s 200 adults, many of whom will be asthmatic, diabetic or have cancer, or live with people who are in those groups. All these adults – as well as the children – can catch and spread coronavirus.

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