The article seems to be pushing a Covid-causation narrative without any evidence. Covid was a global pandemic, the claim that it somehow dissproportionately affected the US requires evidence.
"The extent of the decline seems to be driven by the lowest performing students losing more ground, a worrying trend that predates the pandemic."
"The TIMSS results echoed the 2022 findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, which saw major declines in math scores among both fourth and eighth graders. American students’ scores actually started to decline before the pandemic for reasons that are not entirely clear."
"This gap between high- and low-performing students started to widen before the pandemic for reasons that are unclear. Since then, other research into post-pandemic academic performance has found widening gaps across race and income, even as many middle and higher income students are doing well."
Hacker News commenter:
"The article seems to be pushing a Covid-causation narrative without any evidence."
I understand very well, you're spreading common misinformation that was debunked years ago.
When we look at the overall death rate during the pandemic (i.e., completely disregarding covid tests), it's still true that the US had a much higher increase in deaths than most of the world.
Even if you limit this to places where reporting is fairly accurate (the first world, or even just rich European countries), it's still true.
The "because we tested more" line is complete nonsense, we can literally count the people missing and end up with a very similar result.
