Fact check: What role do kids play in spreading the coronavirus? (cnn.com)
Washington (CNN)In the debate over whether schools across the US should open in the fall, questions continue to be raised about how the coronavirus affects children.
Proponents of reopening schools have argued that children have largely been spared the worst effects of the virus and have pointed to guidelines published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in late June that advocated for "all policy considerations for the coming school year [start] with a goal of having students physically present in school."
When Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn was asked about reopening schools in Texas, one of the hotspots of the recent surge in cases -- he told a local NBC affiliate Thursday that "we still don't know whether children can get it and transmit it to others."
While some articles and blogs have ridiculed Cornyn for supposedly suggesting that kids couldn't be infected by the virus, Cornyn's communication director Drew Brandewie told CNN the senator "was questioning the degree to which children can catch it and THEN transmit it to others. He was not questioning whether children can catch it at all."
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