AP FACT CHECK: Trump team's false comfort on schools, virus

[Nevilledog]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ap-fact-check-trump-teams-false-comfort-on-schools-virus/ar-BB16EAKw?li=BBnb7Kz


White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday inaccurately characterized what the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said on the matter. A day earlier, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also was wrong in stating that the research shows there is no danger “in any way” if kids are in school.

No such conclusion has been reached.

Their comments came as Trump continued to spread falsehoods about a pandemic that is taking a disproportionate hit on the U.S. and is not under control.


A look at recent claims and reality:

SCHOOLS

McENANY: “Just last week you heard Dr. Redfield say that children are not spreading this.” — Monday on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends"

THE FACTS: No, Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, did not say that. He said officials don't have evidence that children are “driving” infections at this point. But they have not ruled out that children spread the virus to adults.

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[uponit7771]

1. K&R, Who in their right mind is going to trust Captain Clorox & the Fuck It Up crew with their child

[Nevilledog]

2. Idiots, aka trumpers.

My hubby's district has received multiple calls from parents saying they will withdraw their kids if masks are required. It's insane.

[Laelth]

7. Good reason to require masks, no? n/t

-Laelth

[Nevilledog]

8. Yeah.... But district is funded by number of students.

Enough people withdrawing their kids means loss of funding for teacher positions.

They will not make decisions based on money though. At least not here.

[NCjack]

3. They torture truth until it becomes a lie. No one in their right mind should

believe any statement made by Kayleigh McEnany and Betsy DeVos.

Strike: No children go to school until the death curve is zeroed.

[Timewas]

6. The entire

federal government is basically committing negligent homicide...

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Summer school already has been canceled (at least in a portion of SW Missouri)...

covid 19 cases were detected in one school district down there already, and my niece pulled her two kids out of school. I applaud her for caring far more for her kids that rump or devos ever did.

Would someone else w/ kids risk their kid's lives too over this going to school or not? Especially when there are alternatives to safe learning such as home schooling, online learning, etc.?

[Champp]

5. Republican lies are destroying America