A public health expert warned that schools could not safely reopen in the fall until the White House delivers on its promise made as states began shutting down two months ago.
Nadia Abuelezam, an epidemiologist and professor at Boston College’s School of Nursing, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump’s administration had squandered up to eight weeks of lockdowns in some states.
“The reason why we’ve been in lockdown — there are a number of reasons,” Abuelezam said. “One is to let the health care system keep up with the demand. Another reason is, hopefully, to buy a little bit of time, to start improving our testing capacity, start improving our capacity to contact trace and isolate people who are positive. Certainly, an improvement in our testing, whether that’s sort of quick diagnostic testing, or whether that’s sort of quick diagnostic testing, or whether that’s providing a landscape of test, trace and isolate.” Continue reading.