Internal CDC documents warn full reopening of schools is 'highest risk' for coronavirus spread

[JonLP24]

(CNN)Internal documents from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that fully reopening K-12 schools and universities would be the "highest risk" for the spread of coronavirus, according to a New York Times report, as President Donald Trump and his administration push for students and teachers to return in-person to classrooms.

The 69-page document obtained by the Times marked "For Internal Use Only" was among materials for federal public health response teams deployed to coronavirus hotspots to help local public health officials handle the outbreak, the newspaper reported.

The document was circulated this week, the Times reported, as Trump slammed the CDC guidelines around reopening schools and he, Vice President Mike Pence and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos increased their pressure on schools to fully reopen by the fall.

It is unclear whether the President viewed the CDC document, according to the Times.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/cdc-documents-warn-high-risk-schools-reopening/index.html

[LisaL]

1. This goes under "no shit, Sherlock."

Especially as our covid is already racing out of control, Trump wants to open schools on top of it?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. There will be a mounting death toll by election day

so the plan must be to stop testing, make it difficult and illegal to report aggregate numbers, stifle the media, and distract with economic data or war/cataclysmic event

[alittlelark]

3. +1,000

[Initech]

4. And Trump will keep fucking with the CDC until he gets the results he wants.

Guarantee it.

[Initech]

5. Well... duh!!!

[smirkymonkey]

6. I don't know if this has been discussed yet, but for those of you going back into the

workplace (and I will be one of them), how do you feel about working with parents who have school aged children who are going to school every day?

Personally, I don't want them coming to the office, at all. Either that, or we should be able to continue to wfh if they insist upon it. Sooner or later, all those kids will be bringing the virus home to their parents and it's not fair to the rest of us to have to risk our lives working with them.