Why are schools going to close for 3 months in a severe pandemic? Isn that an overreaction, even for a deadly flu?
Schools will be closed because that is the best way to control the spread of the flu. Children shed the influenza virus for more days than adults do, and they share their germs more readily than adults do. The school day finds them crowded together, mixing and mingling, on the school bus, in classrooms, hallways and lunchrooms, as well as outside on the playground.
