⁍ CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said on Thursday his staff would provide some new documents to clarify the recommendations.
⁍ Earlier disagreements delayed the release of the reopening guidance for schools and businesses.
⁍ Public health leaders who worked at the CDC under prior presidents said they had never seen anything like this week’s open discord.

– “It’s public health malpractice to say, ‘Open without worrying about anything,'” a former CDC director tells USA Today. Dr. Jeffrey Koplan says he’s never seen anything like this week’s open feud between the CDC and the White House over how to deal with the new coronavirus. On Wednesday, President Trump slammed CDC guidelines for safely reopening schools as “very tough & expensive” and “asking schools to do very impractical things.” But CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said Thursday the guidance would stand, and his staff would provide some new documents to clarify the recommendations, the Washington Post reports. Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the White House coronavirus task force, said Thursday new documents would be issued next week supplementing the original guidelines. The CDC pointed to Redfield’s comments in an interview with ABC on Thursday that the agency would ‘provide additional information to help the schools be able to use the guidance that we put forward.’ The school question is particularly fraught. Children have not been sickened by the new coronavirus as adults, yet spreading it remains a concern with reopening schools. The nation’s experiment with virtual education in the spring was widely panned as a failure, showcasing inequities in the nation’s digital divide.