Another COVID Lie Bites the Dust As Study Finds No Correlation Between School Closings and Transmission

As the COVID pandemic swept across the United States and in the years that followed, scientists, informed commentators, and journalists who questioned the origin of the virus and subsequent COVID policies were summarily dismissed, censored, blacklisted, and even canceled without serious consideration.

From ineffective masks to “social distancing,” to corporate lockdowns and school closures, those among us who relied on unbiased facts and valid information have been vindicated, as one COVID canard after another has gone up in smoke.

Now, new study results published by the Journal of Infection further undermine the lies and obfuscations told by the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci — who indignantly declared in June 2021: “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science” — the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), and others in positions of authority, including within the federal government.

Among the most stunning, yet hardly surprising, findings (emphasis, mine).

Methods

Data were extracted from government websites. Cases and COVID-19 hospitalization and death incidence rates were calculated during the Delta and early Omicron periods in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom, for two weeks preceding and six weeks after schools reopened. We summarized stringency of public health measures (GRI), COVID-19 vaccination rates by age and SARS-CoV-2 testing rates.

Results

During Delta, cases increased in 2/7 sites after schools reopened, hospitalisations increased in 1/5 sites, while deaths decreased in one and increased then decreased in another. During Omicron, cases increased in 2/8 sites, hospitalisations increased in 1/6 sites and deaths increased in 1/4 sites. The hospitalisation and death rate trends that commenced before schools reopened continued on the same trajectory after schools reopened. Vaccination rates in ≥70-year-olds were 75–100% during Delta and 95–100% during Omicron. Wide variations in testing rates may explain differences in case incidence. GRI were higher and more variable during Delta than during Omicron.

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