Dr Fauci on COVID connections
Dr Anthony Fauci joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the latest measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic and the economic consequences of closures.
Dr. Anthony Fauci supports new findings for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that suggest schools can reopen safely during the coronavirus pandemic, despite President Biden’s chief of staff having previously underestimated positive scientific research.
In an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday, Fauci was asked if schools should be open, as the new CDC research found that coronavirus transmission in schools was very low when measures were taken and social distance taken.
“I will support the CDC recommendations because they are really based on data,” Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser, told the network. “We did not appreciate it early on. But the fact is that if you look at a community and look at the penetration of the virus into the community and its spread at the community level, compared to the school in that community, it is less likely to infect a child in the school environment than if they were just in the community. ‘
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Fauci said he understands that this’ is not an easy matter for teachers’, but given the science: ‘We must try to get the children back to school, and that is President Biden’s aim to in the next 100 days the K-to-eight (students) back to school. ‘
CDC researchers published their work in the Journal of the American Medical Association on January 26, and their findings are being put forward by school opening advocates and IDP leaders.
“There was little evidence that schools contributed significantly to a greater distribution of the community,” they wrote.
The researchers cited a report released by the CDC on Jan. 26 based on data from 17 rural K-12 Wisconsin schools that found the coronavirus was lower in schools than in the wider community.
On this January 21, 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks to reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington. (AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
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Parents and students in many communities across the country are at a boiling point as schools are not yet fully reopened 11 months after the pandemic, despite a better understanding of how to stop the spread and the science that suggests schools can work safely.
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Data for the reopening of schools tracked by Burbio.com found as of Friday that 38% of U.S. K-12 public school students still visit “virtual only” schools and about 38% of students go to every day a traditional personal school. The rest of the students receive their training in a hybrid format, according to data shared with Fox News.
Teachers’ unions opposed plans to reopen schools in Chicago and Montclair, NJ, citing safety concerns.
White House staff Ron Klain defended the teachers’ unions when he was quoted in an interview on CNN about the CDC study. Anchor Erin Burnett asked him why “in many cases the unions dominate what the studies show?”
“I do not think unions dominate studies,” Klain replied during the January 26 interview. “I think what you see are schools that did not make the investments to keep the students safe.”
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Klain apparently underestimated the CDC study as unique to rural Wisconsin and did not necessarily apply to other communities that did not have the money to invest in smaller class sizes.
“What the CDC’s study in Wisconsin showed was the 17 rural schools that received a substantial grant from a private foundation to put in place the safety measures they needed – students in very small pod classes of about 11 or so. 12 rural area – they can go to school safely, ‘he said.
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Klain said the biggest hurdle to reopening schools is money, which the Biden government is trying to rectify with the $ 1.9 billion COVID relief package.
“Most of the teachers I spoke to want to be back in the classroom. They just want to know that it’s safe, and we as a country need to make the investments to make it safe,” Klain said.