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The nation’s top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci seems to be changing his mind on schools remaining closed in the fall.
Wednesday Fauci, who once held strong opposition to reopening schools, said keeping them closed because of safety concerns for children might be “a bit of a reach.”
And that it may not be necessary for all communities.
He said that there are several things that can be done including breaking up crowded classrooms and spacing out desk.
But he stressed the importance of not generalizing that this will work for all classrooms and that different communities may need different modifications.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is currently studying how COVID-19 affects children.
Yesterday in the US almost 20 thousand new cases of coronavirus were identified.
Wednesday saw almost one thousand deaths, pushing the death toll past 107 thousand.
Posted – 6.4.20