Public health professionals who have castigated the president's pandemic handling agree with him that students should be in classrooms this fall. "There is a consensus among the vast majority of us [in this field] that the schools need to open. "We're very much going to put pressure on governors — and everybody else — to open schools." In a tweet that puzzled public health experts, Trump has even pressured the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be more gung-ho, and he blasted the agency. But Dr. Howard Njoo, Canada's deputy chief public health officer, said Wednesday that officials are weighing the evidence.

Source: CBC News July 09, 2020 07:50 UTC