User Clip: CDC: "It is in the public health interest to get the schools back open for face-to-face learning."

I don't think I can emphasize it enough, as the director for the Centers for Disease Control, the leading public health agency in the world it is in the public health interest that these K-12 students to get the schools back open for face-to-face learning. Mental health service, 7.1 million kids get in school. Nutrition talked about. Reporting of child abuse, sexual abuse mandatory in schools. The isolation that these adolescents are feeling, that now is associated with increased as you mentioned, increased drug overdose, that's and now increase suicide. I think it is really important, as a grandfather, 11 grandkids, I want these kids back in school. I've one grandchild with cystic fibrosis. I want it done smartly but I think we have to be honest that the public health and interest of the students in the station right now is to get a quality education face-to-face learning and when you do get on with it. close