Researchers: CDC Misrepresented Scientific Research To Keep Schools Closed At Kids’ Expense

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 Researchers: CDC Misrepresented Scientific Research To Keep Schools Closed At Kids’ Expense
March 10, 2021 By Tristan Justice

A team of scientists published an op-ed in USA Today on Tuesday that called out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for allegedly misrepresenting their research in its guidance on school closures.

The article, co-authored by Dr. Tara Henderson and Dr. Daniel Johnson at the University of Chicago with Dr. Monica Gandhi and Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg at the University of California, was headlined, “CDC misinterpreted our research on opening schools. It should loosen the rules now.”

The researchers highlighted that the CDC had used their work to issue recommendations for schools re-openings they claim is based in fear, as only half of all K-12 schools in the U.S. are offering any in-person learning, with less than a quarter offering full in-person instruction to students.

“Like in so many states, California and Illinois schools are being hamstrung by the CDC guidance,” they wrote. “The guidance does not take into account the data we have regarding little disease transmission in schools. Nor, although the guidance cites the work performed across Wisconsin districts performed by our group and published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, does it take that data and new analyses from that data set into account.”

The research authors are professors of medicine and epidemiologists. They went on to outline the science showing it’s not only safe to re-open schools, but essential for public health.

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/10/researchers-cdc-misrepresented-scientific-research-to-keep-schools-closed-at-kids-expense/

[Bigun]

Anything any agency of the fedgov tells you is highly suspect these days. At least it is for me.

[PeteS in CA]

Look for the union label.