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| US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to reporters following a classified intelligence briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe on reports that Russia paid the Taliban bounties to kill US military in Afghanistan, during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Jul 2, 2020. (Photo by= REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) |
[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump of "messing with" children's health on Sunday (Jul 12) and said federal guidelines on reopening schools amid the coronavirus outbreak should be mandatory. "Going back to school presents the biggest risk for the spread of the coronavirus," Pelosi said on CNN's State of the Union program. "If there are CDC guidelines, they should be requirements.""They should be mandates." On Sunday, US Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, repeatedly refused to say if states and school districts should follow the CDC guidelines.
In an interview with CNN, DeVos said children get the virus at a far lower rate than adults and downplayed the risk of children bringing the virus home to teachers, parents, grandparents or caregivers.She also failed to put forth any other blueprint for safe school reopening, saying there was no single solution."We know that schools across the country look very different and that there's not going to be a one-size-fits-all approach to everything," she told "Fox News Sunday."
Her comments drew an immediate rebuke from Pelosi, who said the Trump administration's approach to school reopening was dangerous. CDC recommendations for schools include testing for COVID-19, dividing students into small groups, serving packaged lunches in classrooms instead of cafeterias, and minimising sharing of school supplies.
