School team sports bigger driver of Covid-19 spread in the US than classrooms --Dr. Fauci

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Tue, 2021-04-06 10:43 — mike kraft

Team sports bigger driver of Covid-19 spread in the US than classrooms, Fauci says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was asked on "Good Morning America" Tuesday about the fact that coronavirus variants are now infecting younger people – as well as what that means for parents and what they should do about school, sports and extracurricular activities. By <a href="/profiles/ben-westcott">Ben Westcott</a>, Rob Picheta, Melissa Macaya, <a href="/profiles/melissa-mahtani">Melissa Mahtani</a>, Mike Hayes and <a href="/profiles/veronica-rocha">Veronica Rocha</a>, CNN CNN

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was asked on "Good Morning America" Tuesday about the fact that coronavirus variants are now infecting younger people – as well as what that means for parents and what they should do about school, sports and extracurricular activities.

“We’re finding out that it’s the team sports where kids are getting together, you know, obviously many without masks, that are driving it, rather than in the classroom spread,” Fauci told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

“When you go back and take a look and try and track where these clusters of cases are coming from in the school, it’s just that," he continued. ...

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