Should schools reopen this Fall? For many of us who have been attempting to balance full time work and full-time childcare responsibilities in the middle of this pandemic, this is the million dollar question! As a mother of three kids (ages 4 months, 5 years, and 7 years) attempting to work full-time at home as a doctoral epidemiologist involved in COVID-19 research, with a spouse on the frontlines as an emergency medicine physician, I have been scouring the literature for months looking for data and evidence on this very topic to help inform my own level of risk tolerance for school reopening. I’m going to attempt to answer this critical question in this post.