Trump pushes for schools to reopen

President Donald Trump, at a news conference Tuesday, called for the reopening of schools in the fall despite coronavirus surges in California, Florida, and other parts of the country.

“So what we want to do is we want to get our schools open.  We want to get them open quickly, beautifully, in the fall.” Trump said. “This is a disease that’s a horrible disease, but young people do extraordinarily well.”

Trump cited the decreasing mortality rate of the coronavirus in the United States, as well as the demand from parents as reasons to reopen schools. However, Dr. Anthony Fauci at a separate press conference said taking comfort in a lower rate of death is “a false narrative.”

“There’s so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus, don’t get yourself into false complacency.”

Trump said his administration will “put pressure on governors and everybody else” to open schools, and accused leaders who aren’t planning on opening schools in the fall of doing so for “political reasons.”