President Donald Trump says that coronavirus does not have much of an impact on children as he pushed for the reopening of schools in the fall.
He expressed his confidence that the coronavirus will “go away.”
“It’s going away. It’ll go away. Things go away. No question in my mind that it will go away,” Trump said during a White House press briefing.
Trump lauded the coronavirus vaccine and therapeutic development in the country. He mentioned its “tremendous success,” and he claims the country is “ready to deliver them literally as soon” once they have been approved.
In the same day, Johnson and Johnson announced that the US will purchase 100 million doses of its potential vaccine. The company joins several other companies that have signed similar deals with the US government.
“We think we’re going to have the vaccines before the end of the year, maybe long before the end of the year,” Trump said.
Reopening of schools
The president also called for the reopening of schools in the fall, claiming most of them will. In terms of the coronavirus, he said children can “throw it off very easily.”
“They may get it, but they get it and it doesn’t have much of an impact on them,” he said. “For whatever reason the China virus, children handle it very well.”
Trump’s remarks come after his interview with Fox News earlier in the day where he said the virus “go away like things go away” and reiterated that children are “virtually immune” to coronavirus.
Facebook deleted the video post on the Trump’s personal page of the Fox News segment, saying the content does not comply with its policies around Covid-19 misinformation, according to an NBC News report.
“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” Andy Stone, a Facebook policy spokesperson, said.
White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that Covid-19 is so contagious it would not likely ever disappear completely.
“I do not believe it would disappear because it’s such a highly transmissible virus,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the House Select Subcommittee.
No magical cure
The World Health Officials officials said on Monday that there may never be a magical cure for Covid-19 even as scientists and drugmakers worldwide race to develop a safe and effective vaccine.
Experts generally concur that children are less likely to be severely ill from Covid-19, but studies revealed that children over 9 years old can become a carrier of the coronavirus as well as adults.
Dr. Fauci said that while school districts must try their best in allowing the return of children to school, they should prioritize the health and safety of the students, their families, and teachers.
Infectious disease experts have warned against returning kids to school where the coronavirus is spreading uncontrollably. Many large school districts have already opted to begin the fall school year online.
