CDC Will Not Revise School Opening Guidelines
Source: Political Wire
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the guidelines for reopening schools will not be revised, CNN reports.
Said Redfield: Our guidelines are our guidelines, but we are going to provide additional reference documents to aid basically communities that are trying to open K-through-12s. Its not a revision of the guidelines; its just to provide additional information to help schools be able to use the guidance we put forward.
Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/09/cdc-will-not-revise-school-opening-guidelines/
CNN has the story but it is on their "Live Updates" thing which is a nuisance but it is here - https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-09-20-intl/h_ed29e2879a15ea25030e11906e6ab01c
10 min ago
From CNN's Naomi Thomas, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the guidelines for reopening schools will not be revised, but additional reference documents will be provided.
Our guidelines are our guidelines, but we are going to provide additional reference documents to aid basically communities that are trying to open K-through-12s, Redfield said on Good Morning America Thursday. Its not a revision of the guidelines; its just to provide additional information to help schools be able to use the guidance we put forward.
In response to comments about the guidelines being too tough or impractical, Redfield said this depends on how the guidelines are put together. Right now, were continuing to work with the local jurisdictions to how they want to take the portfolio of guidance that weve given to make them practical for their schools to reopen, he said.
Redfield described the guidelines as intentionally non-prescriptive, and said that the range of guidelines given were to offer schools the option of what will work best for them. Redfield said the CDC would work with any local jurisdiction on how best to use the guidelines to reopen their schools in the safest way, and that it would personally sadden him if people were to use the guidelines and concerns about them as a reason to stay closed. Its a critical public health initiative right now to get these schools reopened and to do it safely, Redfield said.
blm
(113,005 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)ananda
(28,831 posts)I wonder what got them not to change after all.
Jirel
(2,013 posts)Well have to see. Its possible that its more detail, not just letting Dolt45 revise in sharpie.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Time will tell
Jirel
(2,013 posts)In this one instance Im giving them the benefit of the doubt because the stakes are so high that any remotely sane and competent public health expert couldnt just say Yeah, sure, whatever.
Jirel
(2,013 posts)Its about time that an agency stood up to Hair Hitler.
This is too important to let politics supersede public health. We could easily cause a massive outbreak of cases by carelessly reopening schools.
ashredux
(2,598 posts)...just to provide additional information to help schools be able to use the guidance we put forward..
Trumpian Speak = We are changing the guidelines
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Dr. Oz said our children should go back to school because only 2-3% of them would die.
Apr 16
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213297826
Pick any two out of each hundred that you are ok with dying.
moonscape
(4,672 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)great job with FEMA and Katrina. Those are the results trump is looking for. More death and destruction
btw, this is sarcasm
Champp
(2,114 posts)for failing to force the CDC to endanger more Americans by following the Republican directives to make our kids sick.
Sad.
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Social distancing and fear.
Home study with weekly or bi-monthly in-school days? Yeah, few would do the work. But what an opportunity to teach kids self-discipline.
I think we have to innovate, think outside the box.
Nay
(12,051 posts)general. And have a parent who is enthusiastic about learning as well.
EllieBC
(2,988 posts)In my province theyre likely going to let any kid who is a vulnerable learner, so any kids with IEPs, come full time.
honest.abe
(8,610 posts)"No, it's just like 212 except they multiplied every number by 3 and added 1 to the middle number."
slumcamper
(1,604 posts)This doublespeak from DJT, the elf on the shelf, and Redfield intends to sow confusion and self-doubt.
They will do whatever they do.
And we will do what we need to do.
sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)ScratchCat
(1,975 posts)on a lonely island. If he tries to keep up the opposite-world response to Covid-19, I think he is going to get Baker Acted or forced to resign. You can almost see this coming with all the generals and former staffers coming out that he's unfit, with now six GOP Senators saying they are skipping the convention, Fox News reporting on the pandemic more correctly..... seriously, we are probably nearing the end. The GOP should have Kasic and Haley on the line right now.
Demsrule86
(68,455 posts)The courts and now this. We won quite a bit today and so did our Supreme Court...no court can be considered to be in the pocket of the right or the left or they will cease to function. K&R