School kids are the latest victims as Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott, the Republican governors of Florida and Texas, prioritize ideology over public health guidance. The Delta variant of Covid-19 is challenging the long-held belief that children don't get hit hard by the coronavirus. "Politicians should really let the public health and physician leaders move forward on how to get this thing under control." "Whenever politicians mess with public health, usually it doesn't work out for public health, and ultimately it doesn't work out for the politician, because public health suffers and the American people want public health," Cassidy told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" on Sunday. Cassidy's comment Sunday on CNN that "public health suffers" when politics gets involved followed an admission by Republican Arkansas Gov.

Source: CNN August 10, 2021 03:56 UTC