Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that K-12 schools should remain open, as they are “one of the safest places” children can be during the CCP virus pandemic.
“Today, there’s extensive data that we have—we have gathered over the last two to three months—to confirm that K-through- 12 schools can operate with face-to-face learning and they can do it safely and they can do it responsibly,” Redfield, a leading member of Trump administration’s pandemic task force, said during a White House press conference. “The infections we’ve identified in schools, when they have been evaluated, were not acquired in schools. They were actually acquired in the community and the household.”
