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Brown University's Emily Oster defends her column saying it's safe to go on vacation with unvaccinated kids this summer

Brown University economics professor Emily Oster is under fire for daring to look at the data on Covid-19 and coming to the conclusion that it’s safe to go on vacation this summer with unvaccinated kids:

“Kids are low risk. Go ahead and plan the summer,” she wrote:

Well, duh:

Her point is that “the central goal of vaccination is preventing serious illness and death” and “from this standpoint, being a child is a really great vaccine”:

But she’s faced a ton of criticism over it. For example:

And this thread from Dr. Jennifer Gunter:

But Oster is not backing down.

First of all, she’s not alone in this conclusion as health experts agree with her:

And it’s not like she’s some sort of Covid-denier. Here she was last summer saying Texas, Florida and Arizona should have been totally shut down:

More here:

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