Keeping schools closed in the coming academic year is a greater risk to children's health than reopening them, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: An entrance to Public School 159 is seen locked in the Queens borough of New York City, New York, U.S., July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Redfield said the guidelines the CDC has given on operating schools during the pandemic are designed to facilitate their reopening, and he would be “disappointed” if they were used as a rationale to keep them closed. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump blasted the CDC guidelines for schools to reopen as “impractical” and “expensive.” Trump has called on schools to reopen, but there is no federal plan to coordinate the effort.
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