2020-11-23 21:51:42, Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent Mon, November 23, 2020, 12:34 PM PST·4 min read, Yahoo
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If you have a choice between closing the schools and closing the bars, close the bars," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, flatly told Yahoo News on Monday morning.
Fauci explained to Yahoo News that teachers may be unwilling to teach in a "hot zone," even if schools themselves remain islands free of the airborne pathogen.
The schools in New York closed despite positivity rates remaining low within the school population, at 0.19 percent.
WASHINGTON – The nation's most visible public health official offered a stark choice to communities around the country facing difficult choices about how to proceed safely through what could be the most treacherous months of the coronavirus pandemic."
His involvement served only to politicize the issue, with many Democrats coming to oppose reopening schools at least in part because they had come to regard any aspect of Trump's response as toxic.
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