During a virtual Senate panel Tuesday, the country’s leading infection disease expert gave recommendations, as well as warnings to people seeking to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic too soon.
One of the hot topics was education and when students would be returning to the classroom. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stopped short of saying whether or not students should return in the fall.
He did say school openings should be on a case-by-case basis depending on the impacts of the virus in the area. Fauci also mentioned eight vaccines are undergoing clinical trials but doesn’t expect them to be ready by the start of fall semester. “Even at the stop speed we’re going, we don’t