U.S. CDC health official: Closing schools 'greater public health risk' than reopening
2020-07-11 08:29:26 source：CGTN
July 10, 2020
Keeping schools closed in the coming academic year is a greater risk to children's health than reopening them, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
Redfield said the guidelines the CDC has given on operating schools during the pandemic are designed to facilitate their reopening, and he would be "disappointed" if they were used as a rationale to keep them closed.
"I cannot overstate how important I think it is now to get our schools in this nation reopened," Redfield said at The Hill's Health Reimagined virtual summit. "The reason I push it is that I truly believe it's for the public health benefit of these kids."
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