The Barbarity of the School Closures

UNICEF unveiled its "Pandemic Classroom," a model made up of 168 empty desks, each seat representing 1 million children living in countries where schools were almost entirely closed during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City on March 2, 2021. Chris Farber/UNICEF via Getty Images

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Another book on COVID-19? Yes, but the author, David Zweig, has written one for the ages, a definitive account of the school closures from March 2020 through the following year and extending in many places. It’s called “An Abundance of Caution.”