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Fauci admits closing schools for a year during Covid was a mistake

Keeping American schools closed for a year during the coronavirus pandemic was a “mistake”, the former head of a US public health authority has admitted for the first time.

Anthony Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases throughout the pandemic, said the decision to close schools was correct – but they should have reopened sooner.

The health chief was questioned about his role in the closures on Tuesday, after warnings that some children may never catch up with lost learning.

“The issue is shutting everything immediately, and we didn’t shut it down completely, but essentially major social distancing and even schools was the right thing,” Mr Fauci told CBS News.

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 @SparklingM0derateAmerican Solidarityfrom New York  commented…2yrs2Y

Fauci: “50-60% of Covid transmission was asymptomatic, we didn’t know that at the time

 @RelishHannahLibertarian from Ohio  agreed…2yrs2Y

The covid cultists who now retrospectively parrot the talking point that they “didn’t know at the time” were awfully certain back then that anyone who questioned their unequivocal pronouncements needed to be shamed, shunned, silenced, segregated, or ruined.

 @GrassrootsApplesAmerican Solidarityfrom Texas  agreed…2yrs2Y

Honestly this is exactly it. There is so much furor about it now because of their smugness at the time. They were 100% convinced that their way was the only way and any challenge to that was "misinformation" to the level of nearly imprisonment. That's why the backlash is strong

 @C0ngressDonNo Labels from Pennsylvania  commented…2yrs2Y

The issue is not the "not knowing."

The issue is that

A) officials spoke as if they know

B) upended 100 years of medical process based on the "not knowing"

C) actively choked and censor those who pointed to data countering the "unknown."

 @ConstitutionalTaylorLibertarianfrom Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

It isn't an issue of "hindsight is 20-20."

There was actual GOVERNMENT data in real time to raise serious doubt or destroy the policies that were implemented in name of "there is so much that we don't know," but, again, those voices and data were shut down!298

 @OutstandingSealNo Labelsfrom Maine  commented…2yrs2Y

So he thought shutting down the economy for 18 months was appropriate?

This will give a whole new meaning to the word “overkill”.

 @D1plom4tMikeVeteranfrom Minnesota  commented…2yrs2Y

Wasn't the justification of quarantining the healthy based on asymptomatic spread?

Now they're saying at the time, they assumed it wasn't spread that way, but locked us down anyway. What was the justification, then, of locking down the healthy?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

If you were in charge, how would you have approached the decision to close or reopen schools during the pandemic, and why?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

Considering Dr. Fauci's admission, do you think it's possible to make fully informed decisions during a crisis, and how should leaders handle the consequences of such decisions?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

How do you feel about balancing the risks of a health crisis like Covid-19 with the importance of in-person education?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

In your opinion, were the potential benefits of keeping schools closed to stop the spread of Covid-19 worth the risk of students falling behind academically?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

How do you think the long-term closure of schools during the Covid-19 pandemic could have affected students' mental health and why?

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