Fauci said keeping children out of schools over the last year has had ‘deleterious effects’
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday expressed support for reopening schools after the holiday break, offering guidance that contradicts the push from some teachers unions to keep schools shuttered.
Fauci told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos that despite the rising cases of the omicron variant, he believes reopening schools for in-person learning is the right call given widespread vaccinations among teachers and the negative effects on students of not attending in-person.
“When we’ve done the balance so many times over the last year about the deleterious effects of keeping children out of in physical presence in the school, and it’s very clear that there are some really serious effects about that,” said Fauci.
“If you look at the safety of children with regard to infection, we have most of the teachers, [an] overwhelming majority of them are vaccinated,” Fauci continued. “We now can vaccinate children from 5 years of age and older.”
“I plead with parents to please seriously consider vaccinating your children, wearing masks in the school setting, doing test-to-stay approaches when children get infected,” Fauci added. “I think all those things put together, it’s safe enough to get those kids back to school, balanced against the deleterious effects of keeping them out.”
Fauci’s guidance stands in contrast to some teachers unions that are advocating for schools to stay closed as COVID-19 cases surge amid the omicron variant.
If teachers don’t show up for work then take away that days pay and benefits. Can’t use sick leave, can’t use vacation days, no work, no pay!
Well , Genious Biden says OPEN SCHOOLS !!!!! Big Boss Biden
If there are no teachers but there are students in the classroom – then what? Subs? Bwahahahahahahahah
Need to compromise or the students still wont learn. That havent in over a year and a half anyways. Plus there is not a cache was educated teachers out there to begin with…not to mention if there were, they are not knocking down the doors of low classed school areas.
But yeah, go ahead and fire or discipline those so there will be no one except a computer to teach our future.
Is Fake Fauci an authority on EVERYTHING??
Fauci is a liar and a cheat that cares for his pocket above the truth but he is not stupid. He has seen the backlash coming from the mothers and fathers of our school children.