Trump team’s false comfort on schools, virus
Posted on AllSides July 13th, 2020
From The Left
FACT CHECK
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is providing misguided assurances on the safety of kids in school during a coronavirus epidemic.
In remarks Sunday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urged schools to provide full-time, in-person learning in the fall even with community transmission of COVID-19 rising in many parts of the U.S., suggesting that there is no danger “in any way” if kids are in school.
Her statement is unsupported. Some children have become seriously ill from the virus, and one of Trump’s top health experts stresses that data remain...