Redfield says CDC is NOT trying to keep schools closed

RUSH: Here is Robert Redfield. He is the director of the Centers for Disease Control. The Coronavirus Task Force held a little press conference today. The Scarf Queen was there and Dr. Fauci. By the way, have you heard what Dr. Fauci said? Dr. Fauci says that the lower coronavirus death rate is a false narrative.

Well, what is false about pointing out that the coronavirus death rate is down to where it was back in early March? How is that a false narrative? Well, Fauci’s downplaying it. He said that taking comfort in news of declining coronavirus death rates is a false narrative, encouraging complacency. What does that mean? “Well, it just means that people are not gonna take it seriously anymore. If you can get the disease and not die, then we’re gonna –” Why isn’t any of this good news?

REDFIELD: I want to make it very clear, that what is not the intent of CDC’s guidelines, is to be used as a rationale to keep schools closed. We’re prepared to work with each school, each jurisdiction, to help them use the different strategies that we propose that help do this safely, so they come up with the optimal strategy for those schools. I think it’s critical and it would be personally be very disappointing to me, and I know my agency, if we saw that individuals were using these guidelines as a rationale for not re-opening our schools.

RUSH: So Redfield here attempting to say that they at the CDC are gonna work with the schools on reopening. Apparently, the CDC put out some new guidelines on how to behave properly in the midst of the virus, and some people said, “It sounds to us like you’re advocating schools stay shutdown.” So Redfield goes out there. “No, no, no, no, no. I want to make it very clear, that’s not the intent of our guidelines.”

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