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Here, the auhor uses "in" in the phrase "the risk of contagion in schools" - and I am pondering why "the risk of contagion at schools" is wrong.
"In schools" means "within the campus of schools" while "at" simply points that the address is schools. Am I on the right track? There appears to be more there. But I can't tell.
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School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks
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Data about the outcomes are scarce. “I just find it so frustrating,” says Kathryn Edwards, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who is advising the Nashville school system, which serves more than 86,000 students, on how to reopen. Her research assistant spent 30 hours hunting for data—for example on whether younger students are less adept at spreading the virus than older ones, and whether outbreaks followed reopenings—and found little that addressed the risk of contagion in schools.
Source: Science Jul. 7, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...t-ways-keep-coronavirus-bay-despite-outbreaks
"In schools" means "within the campus of schools" while "at" simply points that the address is schools. Am I on the right track? There appears to be more there. But I can't tell.
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School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks
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Data about the outcomes are scarce. “I just find it so frustrating,” says Kathryn Edwards, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who is advising the Nashville school system, which serves more than 86,000 students, on how to reopen. Her research assistant spent 30 hours hunting for data—for example on whether younger students are less adept at spreading the virus than older ones, and whether outbreaks followed reopenings—and found little that addressed the risk of contagion in schools.
Source: Science Jul. 7, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...t-ways-keep-coronavirus-bay-despite-outbreaks