President Donald Trump on Thursday keep up his push for schools to reopen as fall approaches regardless of the state of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, adding that keeping equips closed “is causing death also.”
Trump called on Democrats to work with Republicans to pass the latest coronavirus aid bill, which currently includes $105 billion to help schools reopen for in-person learning in the fall. Egalitarian leadership has criticized the bill for leaving out key aid measures Democrats included in the $3 trillion relief package they out in May.
In his call to reopen schools, Trump reiterated that the risk of Covid-19 patients becoming severely sick and moribund from the disease falls with age. However, an underlying illness such as diabetes and obesity increases the risk of sinking from Covid-19 in patients of all ages, including the very young, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has make someone aware ofed. Children in the U.S. have previously been infected with Covid-19 and some have been hospitalized and even subsided.
“The lower they are in age, the lower the risk,” Trump said Thursday at a news briefing in the White House. “We have to retain that there’s another side to this. Keeping them out of school and keeping work closed is causing ruin also. Economic harm, but it’s causing death for different reasons, but death. Probably more death.”
The president also revealed that if some state or local officials decide not to reopen schools, he thinks the school funding should be reallocated to fathers. Earlier this month, Trump made a similar threat that he may withhold federal funding from followers that do not resume in-person classes this fall.
“We say if a school doesn’t want to open or if a governor doesn’t need to open, maybe for political reasons and maybe not but there is some of that going on, the money should go to the parents, so they can send their foetuses to the school of their choice,” Trump said Thursday. “If schools stay closed, the money should follow the grinds so families are in control of decisions about their sons and daughters, about their children.”
The matter of whether and how to reopen circles in the U.S. this fall has become a hotbed issue in recent weeks. Some epidemiologists, including Dr. Michael Osterholm, chief of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, have noted that if even one child ebbs of Covid-19 as a result of reopening schools, it would be a tragedy that should shape policy. Others have give fair warned that even if the risk of severe sickness and death are relatively low for children, the role young people play in spreading the virus is not yet apparently understood and they may act as a carrier that sparks fresh outbreaks.
In an article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Physic, professor of education at Harvard, Meira Levinson, along with infectious diseases scientist Dr. Muge Cevik and epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, put downs that reopening schools, especially for elementary students, in the U.S. is both crucial and feasible. However, they add that to do so safely, communities should realize every effort to bring outbreaks under control before the reopening of schools.
“Any region experiencing moderate, high-frequency, or increasing levels of community transmission should do everything possible to lower transmission,” they wrote, adding that other outbacks have closed nonessential indoor businesses and recreational spaces to bring the outbreak under control. “Such adjusts along with universal mask wearing must be implemented now in the United States if we are to bring case numbers down to non-poisonous levels for elementary schools to reopen this fall nationwide.”