The CDC is trying to paint a dire picture of what might happen if schools don’t reopen

• When it comes to the contentious debate over whether we should be reopening schools this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci says we definitely should reopen and push for in-person classroom learning.
• CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield concurs, arguing that shifting to a virtual learning model instead of reopening schools would open kids up to missing crucial mental health and nutrition services they get from schools.
• The question of how to practically go about reopening schools in a safe manner, of course, is a whole different matter entirely.

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Federal public officials like White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci are taking a different tack now in trying to make the case for reopening schools this fall, and it amounts to basically trying to scare people into supporting a move to send kids back to school for in-person learning.

At a congressional hearing, for example, Fauci -- who's also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and who's been pretty negative in his assessment of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic -- said that our "default position" should be to open schools back up for the fall semester. That we should try "as best as we possibly can in the context of the safety of the children and the teachers" to get back to in-person learning, inside classrooms. The danger if we don't, Fauci continued, is all of the "downstream unintended consequences on families" if alternate arrangements have to be made.

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