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This is beyond disingenuous.I would love to see schools safely reopen. My kids are struggling. All kids out of school are struggling.You're not following science, you're out here tweeting op-eds

He's lying again.Public health experts - including Trump's former FDA commish - have been calling SINCE MARCH to transition to a test/trace/isolate strategy that would enable a safe rollback of

I entirely agree with Carl's take in this thread.If the US prioritized properly - closing other transmission sources, investing in classroom adaptation, testing, data - we could find ways to

So, here's what makes me nervous about this (beyond the obvious).In the two previous big waves, only part of the country was affected at once. It was possible to surge

Great thread on how massively difficult "shielding the vulnerable" would be in practice. Far harder than using public health measures to control the virus.None of the "shielding" advocates are grappling

I would very much like this to be true! But I'm not entirely persuaded that the data referenced in this article is robust enough to support the headline.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/6166

Douthat's column and the powerful @AlecMacGillis piece it references both argue without much evidence that the resistance to school reopening is largely a reaction to Trump pushing schools to open.I

It's a crowded field but this may prove to be the single most damaging thing he's ever said about COVID.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313186529058136070 It's not a choice between living recklessly vs living in

Instead of working like hell to establish conditions for safe resumption of in-person schooling, the White House put all energy into denying any risk existed.Resulting national failure to prioritize reopening

Dr. Birx has had an impossible job, because her boss is incapable of providing the leadership, intelligence, empathy, or attention needed to contain the US outbreak.But: she too owns the

Again:The 2 million figure was the projection of doing *absolutely nothing*. "We did better than absolutely inaction" is not much of a defense, particularly with cases still rising.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/13084580282036

My kids started school today, via Zoom. They and millions of other children will spend the fall stuck in learning limbo.This was not inevitable. It is a result of the