Psaki: ‘If You Don’t Want to Abide by Public Health Guidelines ... Get out of the Way’

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PSAKI: “And our message continues to be that if you don’t want to abide by public health guidelines, don’t want to use your role as leaders, elected officials, then you should get out of the way and let public health officials guide localities, schools, universities to do — local schools as well to do exactly the right thing. I think you heard yesterday, or those of you who were here, heard Secretary Cardona convey as it relates to schools specifically that we do have information from our public health experts, from the CDC on how we can open up 100 percent of schools and keep them open in the fall. That’s our objective. The only prevention, the only thing preventing that would be if officials in different states and localities put in place restrictions that make that challenging or impossible, and that is certainly concerning to us."