CDC Director Says Agency Won't Revise School Reopening Guidelines -- Despite Trump Pressure

[Nevilledog]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/07/09/cdc-director-says-agency-wont-revise-school-reopening-guidelines---despite-trump-pressure/#4aac4728c55c

TOPLINE The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shot back at President Trump Thursday, saying the CDC would not revise its guidelines on safely reopening schools during the pandemic even after Trump railed against the guidelines, as well as schools that planned to reopen with remote-only courses and governors that have not yet promised to reopen schools this fall, as the subject becomes increasingly political ahead of the November election.

KEY FACTS

On Wednesday, Trump criticized the CDC guidelines for being “very tough” and “impractical” and threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that don’t physically reopen and Vice President Mike Pence said that the agency will revise its guidelines for reopening schools.

CDC Director Robert Redfield pushed back in a Good Morning America interview Thursday saying that “our guidelines are our guidelines,” and that the CDC will provide additional reference documents for schools but that “it’s not a revision of the guidelines.”

Redfield emphasized that the CDC produces guidelines, not requirements, to help local jurisdictions and that the agency is working with the jurisdictions to “take the portfolio of guidance that we have given to make them practical for their schools to reopen.”

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[Jim__]

1. Good for him!

[brewens]

2. Sounds like some people want careers after the Biden takes over. They can't endanger the

public. If Trump is trying to force them too, they have to defy him or quit.

[brewens]

3. I should add that I'm thinking Redfield's people told him no way. n/t