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Kids and Covid: A Roundtable
Lori Manz substitute teaches in a 7th grade math class at Vista View Middle School in Huntington Beach, CA. (Paul Bersebach via Getty Images)
A frank conversation about the consequences of our pandemic policies.
By Bari Weiss
01.26.22
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Two years into this pandemic, we know something crucial that we didn’t know at its start: Children, miraculously, face a negligible risk for severe outcomes from Covid-19. And yet kids—from preschool to university—have borne the burden of our most draconian policies. While the rest of us have returned to bars and restaurants, pre-schoolers are still in …

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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