We Can't Reopen Schools Safely With Trump and DeVos in Charge
New York Times story, “…confident it had beaten the coronavirus and desperate to reboot a devastated economy, the Israeli government invited the entire student body back in late May.” According to the article, this resulted in hundreds of schools closing and tens of thousands of students and teachers quarantined. “[The other countries] definitely should not do what we have done,” said Eli Waxman, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and chairman of the team advising Israel’s National Security Council on the pandemic. “It was a major failure.”“This push to open schools is guaranteed to fail,” echoed Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and molecular virologist, and the dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of.
