Children should always go back to school even if they transmit the virus, the White House said.
Children should still go back to school even if they are found to be transmitting the deadly new coronavirus which has killed more than 140,000 in the United States, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Friday. .
President Donald Trump is pushing to reopen American schools, which abruptly closed their doors last spring when the coronavirus began to spread across the country – despite concerns from teachers and families that children could contract or transmit illness if they returned to class.
“Even if there is transmission and further studies come out, say, we think students should go back to school because the effect on a child we know – scientifically they are not affected in the same way. way than an adult, ”McEnany said in response to a press question about comments from Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, on disease behavior in young children.
Birx told the “Today” television show on Friday that it was “still an open question” how quickly children under 10 spread the disease. She cited a South Korean study that found children under the age of 10 transmit the virus less, while those over 10 have the same rates of transmission as adults. Birx also said that children with underlying illnesses can “suffer terrible consequences” if they contract the illness.
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