Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said schools nationwide should be able to reopen for in-class learning in September — even if all children and teachers are not vaccinated.
“We should anticipate, come September 2021, that schools should be full-fledged in person and all of our children back in the classroom,” she said Wednesday during an Instagram Live chat with ABC News.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tells @DrJAshton that she anticipates all schools will be “full-fledged in person” and no longer remote by September 2021. https://t.co/PS0WyWxRNh pic.twitter.com/fNJyasHHNm
— ABC News (@ABC) April 8, 2021
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Walensky underscored that vaccinating children is not a prerequisite to reopening schools, while teachers can get vaccinated if they want.
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“We can vaccinate teachers. We can test. There’s so much we can do,”
