WHAT TRUMP SAID: In a deranged FOX News appearance rife with inaccuracies yesterday morning, Donald Trump falsely claimed that kids are ‘almost immune’ to coronavirus and pushed for schools to reopen before it is safe to do so. [CNN, 8/5/2020]
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAID: COVID-19 and children: Doctors see link between virus and neurological side effects.
“‘They can have seizures, fever, they can have hallucinations that could be very disturbing for them or their family members, psychotic symptoms,’ said Dr. Mike Zandi, a lead author of one study, co-author of the other and a consultant neurologist at Britain’s National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. ‘It can be very hard to distinguish what is psychiatric disease from medical disease.’” [NBC News, 8/6/2020]
Yet again, Trump’s efforts to push misinformation and downplay the virus are putting Americans and their families at risk.