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Phoebe Williams
Phoebe Williams is a paediatrician, infectious diseases physician and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney.
Opinion
Back to school
Schools must be last to close and first to open. Science confirms they’re the safest place for children
Children are far more likely to be hospitalised for the endemic respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), for which there is no vaccine and which kills 60,000 kids globally each year. We have never closed schools for viruses such as RSV.
- by Archana Koirala and Phoebe Williams
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Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
It’s time for children’s lives to return to normal - schools must stay open
The daily case counts are confronting but closing schools in light of them is unjustified. We don’t do it for other common viruses and we should no longer do it for COVID-19.
- by Philip Britton and Phoebe Williams
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/by/phoebe-williams-p5360q