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Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims
« on: April 28, 2023, 08:27:10 pm »
Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims

By Josh Christenson
April 28, 2023

An epidemiologist blasted teachers union chief Randi Weingarten — saying she fudged a scientific study to wrongly argue to Congress that schools should have been kept closed during the height of COVID-19.

Dr. Tracy Høeg, who co-authored a January 2021 study posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that detailed low levels of coronavirus transmission in school, claimed the American Federation of Teachers president misrepresented the evidence in her testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

“We saw remarkably low in school transmission & no known transmission to teachers,” Høeg said in a lengthy Twitter thread late Wednesday.

“The fact the [CDC] was taking the advice of the [AFT] & not the scientists publishing on this topic in their own journal and without considering the data from Europe seems to have played a role in the massive error that left millions [of] US kids out of school unnecessarily.”

During the hearing hours earlier, Weingarten admitted to lawmakers that President Biden’s staff coordinated with her union on school-reopening guidance before the 80-year-old commander-in-chief even took office.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/04/28/covid-study-doc-randi-weingarten-misrepresented-my-work/
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Re: Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2023, 08:28:06 pm »
She should be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for false statements to Congress.
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Re: Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2023, 08:33:14 pm »
Vaccinate her!
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Re: Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2023, 11:50:20 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on April 28, 2023, 08:28:06 pm
She should be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for false statements to Congress.

She should.

But she won't. Evidently, some people are above the law
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Re: Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2023, 06:15:22 am »
I'd love to see one of the GOP primary types like DeSantis go after her.  Going after schools that stayed closed would be a very popular issue with a lot of parents, and DeSantis has the ability to do that because he re-opened for fall 2020 when many other states didn't.

Blasting the teachers' union is always good politics from Republicans.
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Re: Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2023, 06:26:07 am »
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Re: Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2023, 12:36:46 pm »
Quote from: Maj. Bill Martin on April 29, 2023, 06:15:22 am
I'd love to see one of the GOP primary types like DeSantis go after her.  Going after schools that stayed closed would be a very popular issue with a lot of parents, and DeSantis has the ability to do that because he re-opened for fall 2020 when many other states didn't.

Blasting the teachers' union is always good politics from Republicans.

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