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November 17, 2020

If kids aren’t superspreaders, why treat them like they are?

By CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service

I am not one for coddling children, but the narrative that our kids bear some outsize responsibility for the spread of COVID is demonstrably false.

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