The CDC's crony deal with the teachers unions has cost students dearly

As if our public health authorities needed another black eye, they got it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deferred to the nation’s largest teachers union, over the CDC’s own science, and changed guidance in February that would have encouraged all schools to reopen for in-person learning.

Emails show the American Federation of Teachers began lobbying the CDC shortly after President Joe Biden took office, pressuring the agency to delay its guidance encouraging school reopenings and instead issue a statement that was friendlier toward remote learning.