U.S. President, Donald Trump, on Thursday, pushed for
schools to reopen and sharply disagreed with the nation’s top infectious
disease expert Anthony Fauci, who warned this week against sending students
back to class too soon amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Fauci had told U.S. lawmakers this week that there would
have to be a “step-by-step” assessment of whether the dynamics of the outbreak
would be right for schools to reopen in the autumn, and noted that no vaccine
would be available for use by then.
The expert, who is one of the most prominent faces on
Trump’s coronavirus task force, also warned of the dangers to children of a
virus that doctors are still struggling to understand.
“I think we better be careful [that] we are not cavalier in
thinking that children are completely immune from the deleterious effects,” he
said, pointing to cases of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in very young
coronavirus patients.
Reacting to the development, Trump downplayed the risks of
the virus to children in an interview with Fox Business aired on Thursday.
“I totally disagree with him on schools,” the president said
of Fauci’s words of caution at a Senate hearing earlier in the week.
“We have to get the schools open, and we have to get our
country open.
“I think we have to open our schools, and young people are
very little affected by this,” he said.
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