ST: Former CDC acting director: Re-opening America’s schools starts with controlling community spread of COVID-19 ((storymaccallum____)) ((lubuntu at wor3))

Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins Trace Gallagher on ‘The Story.’

nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor3|||White House Stumbles Over How Best To Reopen Schools, As Trump Blasts CDC Guidance||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||President Trump calls the recommendations “impractical” and says he’ll pressure states to open schools this fall — even threatening to cut funding. But the decision largely lies with states.


White House Stumbles Over How Best To Reopen Schools, As Trump Blasts CDC Guidance

President Trump, seen here at a roundtable discussion at the White House on Tuesday, rebuked the CDC for its guidelines on reopening schools in a tweet Wednesday.

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White House Stumbles Over How Best To Reopen Schools, As Trump Blasts CDC Guidance



President Trump calls the recommendations “impractical” and says he’ll pressure states to open schools this fall — even threatening to cut funding. But the decision largely lies with states.


nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor3|||To Come To The Rescue Or Not? Rats, Like People, Take Cues From Bystanders||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||Experiments in people have long shown that the presence of indifferent bystanders hurts the chances that someone will help a stranger in an emergency. Rats, it turns out, behave the same way.


To Come To The Rescue Or Not? Rats, Like People, Take Cues From Bystanders

Faced with a rat trapped in a restrainer, a free rat opens the trap’s door to liberate the trapped animal (while stepping on its head — “very rat-ish behavior,” says University of Chicago neurobiologist Peggy Mason).

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To Come To The Rescue Or Not? Rats, Like People, Take Cues From Bystanders



Experiments in people have long shown that the presence of indifferent bystanders hurts the chances that someone will help a stranger in an emergency. Rats, it turns out, behave the same way.


What Really Happened The Night Kitty Genovese Was Murdered?

OU: Pence says kids need to get back to school for their mental health, well-being and nutrition ((outnumbered_______)) ((lubuntu at wor3))

Vice President Mike Pence and the White House coronavirus task force put a focus on reopening schools in the fall; reaction and analysis on ‘Outnumbered.’

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