Lockdown Birthday Parties for Kids Did Increase Risk of Covid

The hard-to-capture research is in: children’s birthdays were linked to higher infection rates in counties that already had more cases

Tara Haelle
Elemental
Published in
4 min readJul 6, 2021

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Epidemiologists regularly warned of the risks of small group gatherings, particularly indoors, during the pandemic before vaccines were…

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Tara Haelle
Elemental

Tara Haelle is a science journalist, public speaker, and author of Vaccination Investigation and The Informed Parent. Follow her at @tarahaelle.