Dr. Micah Pollak, an economist at IU Northwest and director of the Center for Economic Education & Research is the coauthor of a study titled "The effect of in-person primary and secondary school instruction on county-level SARS-CoV-2 spread in Indiana." He and his colleagues, including two physicians, a biostatistician, a medical student and an education scholar, examined the 2020-2021 school year using data from across Indiana to ascertain the risk in-person teaching has had on local communities. We talked with Dr. Pollak about this study, how they conducted their research and what it might mean for next school year.You can find the study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33846706/