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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on July 29, 2020, 02:17:12 pm
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CDC Director: Threat Of Suicide, Drugs, Flu To Youth ‘Far Greater’ Than Covid
Warns that there's still a "real risk" to teachers, students with comorbidities
By Amanda Prestigiacomo
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Jul 28, 2020 DailyWire.com
During a Buck Institute Webinar streamed on July 14, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield promoted the general reopening of schools, highlighting the low coronavirus risk for children without preexisting conditions and the unfortunate spike in suicides and drug overdoses, which Redfield said are “far greater†in number than COVID-linked deaths in the young.
“It’s not risk of school openings versus public health. It’s public health versus public health,†asserted Redfield.
“I’m of the point of view, and I weigh that equation as an individual that has 11 grandchildren that the greater risk is actually to the nation to keep these schools closed,†he continued.
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