Here’s the limited guidance Trump allowed the CDC to give to schools and child-care centers about safely reopening
The CDC had written extensive guidelines about how various sectors of American life could carefully reopen, but the White House allowed the CDC to release only short “decision trees” in six areas, one of them for schools and another for child-care programs, which you can see below.
The longer guidelines are still being reviewed by the White House, The Post reports. President Trump has repeatedly urged the United States to reopen and mocked calls by experts such as Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to go slowly so as not to spark a surge in novel coronavirus cases.
This week, Trump downplayed the dangers of children returning to school while the covid-19 pandemic is still prevalent in a community. He also contradicted Fauci, the country’s leading public health official, who warned about the dangers of rushing to reopen schools.
According to another Washington Post report: “Instead of assuming its traditional lead role in a public health crisis, the 74-year-old agency has become just one of many voices providing often contradictory instructions to a confused and imperiled public.”
In March, the CDC published specific guidance on its website for how schools should handle and prepare for the spread of covid-19. You can compare the level of detail in that guidance, below, with what the White House allowed the CDC to release on safely opening schools.
Here are the short versions of the CDC reopening guidance for schools and child-care programs.
