CDC Director Says Guidelines On Reopening Schools Won’t Change Despite Trump Complaints

Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), speaks during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, at the White House on April 17, 2020. (Photo by A... Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), speaks during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, at the White House on April 17, 2020. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield stated on Thursday morning that the agency’s recommendations on how schools can reopen in the fall will not be altered despite President Donald Trump’s attacks against them.

“Our guidelines are our guidelines, but we are going to provide additional reference documents to aid basically communities in trying to open K-12s,” Redfield said during an interview on ABC News’ “Good Morning America.”

“It’s not a revision of the guidelines,” he continued. “It’s just to provide additional information to help schools be able to use the guidance we put forward.”

On Wednesday morning, Trump had attacked the CDC’s “very tough and expensive” guidelines via Twitter and accused the agency of “asking schools to do very impractical things.”

Redfield dodged the issue during a White House press briefing several hours later when reporters asked if the CDC will revise its recommendations as a result of Trump’s tweet, saying only that his agency “will continue to develop and evolve guidance to meet the needs of the schools and the states that we continue to provide that assistance to.”

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  1. Cajones implant?

  2. We’re not going to change the guidelines, but we’re going to issue clarifications that change the guidelines.

  3. Didn’t read the article because I have to walk the dog and eat lunch (plus I’m already burned out on the major news of the day) but clearly, Mr. Director is walking it back because the blowback from the media and the public put his entire agency on a lifeline due to his own ridiculous comments the other day.

    If you can’t trust the CDC during a pandemic, who the fuck can you trust? I’m guessing Dr. Fauci probably gave him a good talkin’ to and helped reinforce his spine. It was either that or a transplanted spine was already on order for this bozo after his last appearance at a press conference. Keep walking that tightrope Mr. Director and eventually you’re gonna fall if you don’t stand up straight and maintain your objectivity and balance.

  4. “The guidelines are the guidelines! But we will spew a bunch of additional horseshit to undermine them in order to placate Orange Julius.”

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