https://www.startribune.com/ap-fact-check-trump-team-s-false-comfort-on-schools-virus/571737892/
President Donald Trump's aides are misrepresenting the record on kids and the coronavirus as they push for schools to reopen.
White House
press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday inaccurately characterized
what the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
said on the matter. A day earlier, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also
was wrong in stating that the research shows there is no danger "in any
way" if kids are in school.
No such conclusion has been reached.
McENANY: "Just last week you heard Dr.
Redfield say that children are not spreading this." — Monday on Fox News
Channel's "Fox and Friends"
THE FACTS: No,
Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, did not say that. He said
officials don't have evidence that children are "driving" infections at
this point. But they have not ruled out that children spread the virus
to adults.
Dr. Deborah
Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said last week the
government doesn't have enough data to show whether and to what degree
kids can infect others.
The bulk of data
has been collected from adults and particularly from those who were
sick, leaving questions about children still unanswered, Birx said. She
said children under 10 are the least tested age group.
The officials did not reach a conclusion that "children are not spreading this." Nor does the evidence prove that they are.
The government has counted tens of thousands
of children who have been infected with the virus and in some cases
hospitalized. Overall, public health officials believe the virus is less
dangerous to children than adults.
I prefer medical journals to "We have to bash Trump no matter what" newspapers:https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07/08/peds.2020-1576#T1
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what it says deals with transmission. If children die from being forced back to school or make family members or teachers sick. so what was different from the newspaper information.?
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is not supportive of Trump that everything is under control and that virus is harmless etc etc
So the onus is on the teachers. In ER, we show up in street clothes, change in a designated area and then go to the department. At the end of the shift we return to that area, shower and change back into street clothes. Teachers may have to do something similar but in an area with low incidence like most of Canada right now, that would be sufficient. I certainly wouldn't recommended it for Israel or Arizona though.
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