{"id":5793,"date":"2020-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-schools-are-safe-places-for-kids-during-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-11-20T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:21:09","slug":"cdc-director-schools-are-safe-places-for-kids-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-schools-are-safe-places-for-kids-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Director: Schools Are Safe Places for Kids During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-director-schools-are-safe-places-for-kids-during-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=5793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Schools are one of the safest places for children during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came Thursday during a briefing by the White House Coronavirus Task Force. They were detailed in a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/cdc-director-schools-among-safest-places-kids\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe infections that we\u2019ve identified in schools when they\u2019ve been evaluated were not acquired in schools,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were actually acquired in the community and in the household.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is, for kids K-12, one of the safest places they can be, from our perspective, is to remain in school, and it\u2019s really important that following the data, making sure we don\u2019t make emotional decisions about what to close and what not to close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to say clearly the data strongly supports that K-12 schools \u2014 as well as institutes of higher learning \u2014 really are not where we\u2019re having our challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Redfield again warned against closing schools as a result of any emotional response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be counterproductive from my point of view, from a public health point of view, just in containing the epidemic, if there was an emotional response, to say, \u2018Let\u2019s close the schools,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>New York City public schools closed Thursday as a result of the coronavirus, forcing students to return to remote learning, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/video\/4884401-nyc-schools-closed-until-further-notice\/\">CBS New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio said he and the Department of Education are currently working on new standards to reopen the classrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are one of the safest places for children during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield. His comments came Thursday during a briefing by the White House Coronavirus Task Force. 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