Schools in Sweden emphasized keeping hands clean, but neither students nor teachers wore masks. By Gretchen VogelScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.A careful analysis of health data from Sweden suggests that keeping schools open with only minimal precautions in the spring roughly doubled teachers’ risk of being diagnosed with the pandemic coronavirus.
Their partners faced a 29% higher risk of becoming infected than partners of teachers who shifted to teaching online. Parents of children in school were 17% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those whose children were in remote learning.