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The damage to children from school lockouts will be enduring

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Published February 4, 2022 4:12pm ET
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The damage to children from school lockouts will be enduring
Shauna Andrus, left, a nurse volunteering at the University of Washington Medical Center, gives the first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Emmy Slonecker, 7, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, in Seattle. Last week, U.S. health officials gave the final signoff to Pfizer's kid-size COVID-19 shot, a milestone that opened a major expansion of the nation's vaccination campaign to children as young as 5. | (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

COVID-19 has wreaked so much havoc on all facets of our lives, but children have been especially harmed.

Thankfully, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent statement that “we have 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators” was wildly inaccurate. but COVID-19, and the response to it, has taken a terrible toll on children’s flourishing, far beyond their physical health.

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