Dr. Fauci on COVID blocks
Dr. Anthony Fauci joins America Reports to discuss the latest measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic and the economic effects of the blockages.
Dr. Anthony Fauci supported new findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that suggest that schools can reopen safely during the coronavirus pandemic, even though President Biden’s chief of staff has minimized positive scientific research.
In an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program on Thursday, Fauci was asked whether schools should be opened, given the new CDC survey that found that coronavirus transmission in schools was very low when wearing masks and measures of social distance were taken.
“I would support the CDC’s recommendations because they are really based on data,” Fauci, Biden’s chief medical consultant, told the network. “We didn’t fully understand this at first. But the fact is that when you look at a community and observe the penetration of the virus in the community and its spread at the community level, compared to the school in that community, a child is less likely to be infected in the school environment than if it were only in the community. “
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Fauci said he understands that “it is not an easy matter” for teachers due to their safety concerns, but given science: “We need to try to get children back to school and that is the goal of President Biden that in the coming years 100 days to get K-to-eight (students) back at school. “
The CDC researchers published their work on Jan. 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and their findings were praised by school advocates and Republican leaders.
“There is little evidence that schools have contributed significantly to increasing transmission in the community,” they wrote.
The researchers pointed to a report released by the CDC on January 26 based on data from 17 rural K-12 schools in Wisconsin, which found that the spread of coronavirus in schools was less than in the wider community.
In this January 21, 2021 photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks to reporters at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at 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 have not yet fully reopened after 11 months of the pandemic, despite a better understanding of how to prevent the spread and the science suggesting that schools can operate with safety.
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School reopening data tracked by Burbio.com found on Friday that 38% of students at K-12 public schools in the U.S. are still attending “virtual only” schools and about 38% of students are attending traditional face-to-face schools every days. The rest of the students are receiving their education in a hybrid format, according to data shared with Fox News.
Teacher unions have resisted plans to reopen schools in places like Chicago and Montclair, NJ, citing safety concerns.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain defended the teachers’ unions when pressed about the CDC study during an interview on CNN. Anchor Erin Burnett asked him why “are unions in many cases rejecting what studies show?”
“I don’t think the unions are rejecting the studies,” Klain replied during the January 26 interview. “I think what you’re seeing are schools that haven’t made investments to keep students safe.”
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Klain seemed to downplay the CDC study as being exclusive to rural Wisconsin and not necessarily applicable to other communities that did not have the money to invest in smaller classes.
“What that study in Wisconsin from CDC showed was the 17 rural schools that received a considerable amount of funding from a private foundation to implement the types of security measures they needed – students in very small classes of about 11 or 12 distant students in a rural area – they could safely go to school, “he said.
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Klain said the biggest barrier to reopening schools is money, which the Biden government is trying to remedy with the $ 1.9 trillion COVID aid package.
“Most of the teachers I talked to want to go back to the classroom. They just want to know if it’s safe and we, as a country, should make investments to make it safe,” said Klain.