House Republicans Attack Union Role in School Virus Guidance (1)

With the Covid-19 pandemic ebbing, President Joe Biden’s administration shared its school reopening guidance with a national teachers’ union, resulting in key portions of it changing, a House Republican coronavirus committee alleges in a new report.

The report, published Wednesday, states that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky shared the draft guidance with the American Federation of Teachers. After sharing that draft, the union asked Walensky to clarify in the guidance that schools should close automatically if Covid-19 positivity rates reach a certain threshold.

That “trigger” was included in the guidance, according to the Republicans’ report. ...