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Good Reasons Exist to Reopen Schools, Fauci Says
Rachel del Guidice
July 09, 2020
“Within the context of doing whatever you can to safeguard the health
and welfare of the children, we should try to get the schools open,”
says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, pictured here testifying June 30 during a
Senate committee hearing.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, said in a radio interview that going back to
school during the coronavirus pandemic may be a good idea for children.
“If you keep children out of school, the unintended negative
ripple-effect consequences can be profound with regard to what the
parents do,” Fauci said Wednesday during a SiriusXM program hosted by
Dr. Marc Siegel, a physician and associate professor of medicine at the
NYU Langone Medical Center.
“Stay off from work to be able to take care of their children, what
about child care?” Fauci asked. “What about children who rely on
schools for their lunch? Maybe the most important nutritional meal that
they’ll get.”
Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said that
not allowing children to go back to school has significant
ramifications.
“Within the context of doing whatever you can to safeguard the
health and welfare of the children, we should try to get the schools
open,” he said.
Siegel, also a Fox News Channel medical contributor, said on “Tucker
Carlson Tonight” that it was good to hear Fauci speak positively about
reopening schools this fall.
“I was so glad to see Dr. Fauci finally taking that position,” Siegel
told Carlson. “When you consider the position that we need to take is
‘We are opening the schools,’ how do we go about doing it, what
guidelines can help us? Not the guidelines getting in the way of it.”
Siegel said clarified guidelines expected next week from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention “may be more personal” and “maybe
they will actually work.”
New COVID-19 cases in America reached record highs by climbing to about 50,000 a day, USA Today reported Monday.
About 3 million Americans have contracted the virus and more than 130,000 have died, data from Johns Hopkins University shows.
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