.@RepBradWenstrup: “Did the AFT provide suggested edits to the CDC’s February 2021 school opening guidance, including a trigger to automatically close schools that, if implemented, would have kept more schools closed and kids out of the classroom?”@CDCDirector Walensky: “Yes.” pic.twitter.com/ngWlSn7Qt0

— Americans for Public Trust (@apublictrust) June 13, 2023

[Walensky tried to assure Renstrup that they didn’t adopt those triggers — but Walensky and the CDC did bend over backwards to pander to Randi Weingarten and AFT in tuning their guidance to make it easy to keep schools closed long after it became clear that schools weren’t a risk. It eviscerates Weingarten’s attempts to rewrite history by claiming to have been pushing for schools to reopen. — Ed]