CNN’s Chief School-Closure Advocate Backtracks

Welcome back to “Forgotten Fact-Checks,” a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we guard against revisionism from the worst pandemic-era actors, marvel at an atrocious Father’s Day headline, and hit more media misses.

School-Closure Revisionism

It was inevitable that those who advocated a course as disastrous as keeping schools closed years into the pandemic would seek to rewrite their role in history.

The data are unambiguous and damning: School closures took an enormous and devastating toll on American children and parents alike. As Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has acknowledged,...