Fauci: Kids could get ‘infected’ if Florida reopens schools

Fauci: Kids could get ‘infected’ if Florida reopens schools

Fauci: Kids could get ‘infected’ if Florida reopens schools

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Donald Trump and top White House health officials on Friday said a proposal floated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to reopen state schools next month could help spread the coronavirus.

“If you have a situation where you don’t have a real good control over an outbreak and you allow children together, they will likely get infected,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during the daily news briefing of the White House coronavirus task force.

Fauci, who has become the medical face of nation’s pandemic response, said he was not “specifically speaking about Florida,” but he was responding directly to a reporter’s question about DeSantis, who on Thursday said that opening schools in May was at least a consideration.

“We are going to look at the evidence and make a decision,” DeSantis, speaking at a briefing with Florida Department of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, said when asked if the state’s schools would remain closed for the rest of the academic year. “If it’s safe, we want kids to be in school.”

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