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President Donald Trump defended his call to reopen schools this fall by claiming children are “virtually immune” from COVID-19 and that the coronavirus will “go away” soon.
“This thing’s going away – It will go away like things go away,” Trump said during a wide-ranging interview on “Fox & Friends” a day after authorities reported more than 1,000 Americans died of the virus.
Children can catch – and pass on – the coronavirus, doctors have said. The National Education Association has cited that in arguing that reopening schools this fall may maintain spikes in the spread of the virus, which has claimed more than 150,000 American lives.
Trump said as early as February that the virus would eventually “disappear,” but the pandemic has accelerated at various points over the past five months.
