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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 180 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Today's main story,

the reopening of schools. It's September 7th, and by the middle of this month, nearly all teachers,

students, and parents will be back in the school season swing.

Of course, that will look pretty different from one place to the next.

Some kids will be back in school, at their desks, others meeting in special pods with a handful of classmates.

Or they'll be home tethered to their Chromebooks.

Today, with the help of tradeoffs, a podcast about our costly, complicated, and counterintuitive

health care system, we explore how educators and families are navigating what we know and don't know

about the risks of restarting school during a pandemic.

From the Annenberg studio at the University of Pennsylvania,

a conversation with Brown University economist Emily Oster

about the tough choices, schools, and families are facing this fall.

Dan Gorenstein reports.

So, Emily, we've seen lots of places, including big districts like Philadelphia, Houston, and Chicago,

opt to open online this fall, while other places and even whole states are opening in person.

In the broadest sense, what's driving schools to go the online route?

So I think there's basically two things.

So one is this decision feels safe from a public health standpoint.

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