Dr. Tracy Høeg, who co-authored a January 2021 study posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that detailed low levels of coronavirus transmission in school, claimed the American Federation of Teachers president misrepresented the evidence in her testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

“We saw remarkably low in school transmission & no known transmission to teachers,” Høeg said in a lengthy Twitter thread late Wednesday.

“The fact the [CDC] was taking the advice of the [AFT] & not the scientists publishing on this topic in their own journal and without considering the data from Europe seems to have played a role in the massive error that left millions [of] US kids out of school unnecessarily.” …

“Despite the wording in [Randi Weingarten’s] written testimony, I consistently *disagreed* w/ what she & AFT were requesting in terms of mitigation to reopen schools & I’ve said that consistently (on social media, in op-eds, on news interviews) since our study was published.”

[I don’t think it’s any news that Weingarten has lied repeatedly to recast herself as a champion of open schools. It may be news that she’s been lying all along, though. — Ed]