Reopened schools in Europe and Asia have largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks

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The article is put in the context of the US reopening schools, but there's nothing comparable about the two situations. As far as I can tell, European countries have orders of magnitude fewer cases per million people than the US [1]. Additionally those countries have a comprehensive federal response which is lacking in the US. We're still debating mask wearing as a political issue and now hospitals are being told to report information on the pandemic to a potentially politically motivated organization instead of the CDC [2].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/16/coronavirus...

BREAKING. Countries with a low or nearly 0 daily infection rate have no problem returning to normal life. BREAKING.

On a scale level, it looks like nearly zero when comparing America vs the western world. America should definitely not open

But for the individual countries, it's something important. At what time/point/infection rate/daily infection rate is it OK?

The answer is unknown, but looking at other countries opening up is making my non American country idea of opening up more comfortable.

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