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COVID-19 and schools: #CovidUnknowns

The BMJ

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Evidence and public healthInfectious diseasePublic health and policyEpidemiology and statistics

Fiona Godlee and George Davey Smith host a discussion on Covid-19 transmission in schools and the impact of school closures.

Schools closures have been a controversial issue from the start of the COVID pandemic. Dr Fiona Godlee of The BMJ and Professor George Davey Smith of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the Bristol University, plus their invited guests from leading institutions will discuss all aspects of the issue. The next webinar on the 11th Feb 2021, will be on testing for Covid-19. To be able to ask questions sign up via zoom - zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TxpJsrQLTsC-DqtuYzM-ZA - Welcome and introduction - SARS-CoV-2 prevalence/transmission/dissemination and role in community infection trajectories (Chaired by George Davey Smith) • Alasdair Munro, Clinical Research Fellow Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Southampton • Muge Cevik, clinical academic fellow in infectious diseases and medical virology, University of St Andrews - Clinical risk, severe disease and long covid (Chaired by Allyson Pollock) • Risks to children - Elizabeth Whittaker, senior clinical lecturer in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology, Imperial College London • Risk to teachers - Rachael Wood, consultant in public health medicine, Public Health Scotland and David McAllister, senior clinical lecturer, University of Glasgow - Impacts of school closures (Chaired by Caroline Relton) • Teachers' perspectives - Elisabeth Gilpin, headteacher, St Mary Redcliffe School, Bristol); • Consequences for children - Sunil Bhopal, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, Newcastle University • Rights of the child - Bruce Adamson, children & young people's commisioner Scotland and Haroon Chowdry, director of evidence for Children's Commissioner England - International perspectives (Chaired by Fiona Godlee) • USA - Ibukun C. Akinboyo, assistant professor of pediatrics, Duke University Hospital • Norway - Margrethe Greve-Isdahl, senior physician, Norwegian Institute of Public Health • France - Arnaud Fontanet, director of the Department of Global Health, Pasteur Institute • N America/Europe - Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, staff writer at Science Magazine - Discussion (Chaired by Phil Hammond)

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