Parents are unlikely to get infected by their young children. High schoolers bear a greater risk.
Health Care
Americans deserve a health care system that provides universal—and universally affordable—coverage for today’s Americans, and a fiscally sustainable system for the generations to come. All Americans should have the freedom to choose among a wide variety of plans that suit their needs. Taxpayer-funded subsidies should be reserved for the poor, the sick and the vulnerable—not the wealthy. Enabling competition and curtailing the power of health care monopolies will lower patients’ costs and increase innovation in patient care.
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71 of the nation’s 120 largest school districts will start the 2020–21 academic year with remote instruction and no in-person classes due to the coronavirus.
How do we best address the economic dislocation that is affecting everyday Americans and vulnerable populations?
If K-12 schools reopen, the coronavirus risk to teachers is low—especially from younger children.
The odds of dying from COVID-19 vary considerably by age, especially in comparison to influenza.
To reduce economic and health disparities, we must reopen schools, colleges, and child care facilities, and enable microschool ‘pods’ for those who would otherwise stay home.
Long-term care facilities like nursing homes and assisted living facilities represent the largest—and still growing—share of coronavirus deaths.
In an analysis of 31 high-income nations, Asian countries have performed the best.