The BMJ's video: COVID-19 and schools: CovidUnknowns

Schools closures have been a controversial issue from the start of the COVID pandemic. Dr Fiona Godlee of The BMJ and Professor George Davey Smith of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the Bristol University, plus their invited guests from leading institutions will discuss all aspects of the issue. The next webinar on the 11th Feb 2021, will be on testing for Covid-19. To be able to ask questions sign up via zoom - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TxpJsrQLTsC-DqtuYzM-ZA 00:00:00 - Welcome and introduction 00:04:00 - SARS-CoV-2 prevalence/transmission/dissemination and role in community infection trajectories (Chaired by George Davey Smith) • Alasdair Munro, Clinical Research Fellow Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Southampton • Muge Cevik, clinical academic fellow in infectious diseases and medical virology, University of St Andrews 00:32:20 - Clinical risk, severe disease and long covid (Chaired by Allyson Pollock) • Risks to children - Elizabeth Whittaker, senior clinical lecturer in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology, Imperial College London • Risk to teachers - Rachael Wood, consultant in public health medicine, Public Health Scotland and David McAllister, senior clinical lecturer, University of Glasgow 00:55:00 - Impacts of school closures (Chaired by Caroline Relton) • Teachers' perspectives - Elisabeth Gilpin, headteacher, St Mary Redcliffe School, Bristol); • Consequences for children - Sunil Bhopal, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, Newcastle University • Rights of the child - Bruce Adamson, children & young people's commisioner Scotland and Haroon Chowdry, director of evidence for Children's Commissioner England 01:28:30 - International perspectives (Chaired by Fiona Godlee) • USA - Ibukun C. Akinboyo, assistant professor of pediatrics, Duke University Hospital • Norway - Margrethe Greve-Isdahl, senior physician, Norwegian Institute of Public Health • France - Arnaud Fontanet, director of the Department of Global Health, Pasteur Institute • N America/Europe - Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, staff writer at Science Magazine 01:56:00 - Discussion (Chaired by Phil Hammond)