白宫周五阻止疾病控制和预防中心主任罗伯特·雷德菲尔德下周在国会就如何安全重开学校，美国广播公司新闻已经证实。
白宫在一份匿名官员的声明中为阻止雷德菲尔德作证的决定进行辩护。
“在过去的三个月里，雷德菲尔德博士至少在国会作证四次。这位官员说:“我们需要我们的医生专注于流行病的应对。”
疾病预防控制中心表示，它仍在为学校制定额外的指导方针，这些指导方针可能要到本月底才能准备好。推迟向学校提交明确的国家计划激怒了许多地方官员和教师，他们说，他们缺乏下个月是否可以安全返校所需的信息。
疾病控制和预防中心主任罗伯特雷德菲尔德，在白宫冠状病毒工作队简报会上发言，在教育部大楼星期三，2020年7月8日，在华盛顿。曼努埃尔·巴尔奇·塞内塔/美联社
众议院教育和劳工委员会民主党主席博比·斯科特邀请雷德菲尔德出庭作证，他说他希望学校重新开放能得到公共卫生专家的指导。
D-Va的斯科特说:“令人担忧的是，特朗普政府阻止疾病预防控制中心在委员会面前露面，而此时委员会的专业知识和指导对于学生、家长和教育工作者的健康和安全至关重要。”
他补充说:“这种缺乏透明度的做法对全国许多社区造成了极大的伤害，他们面临着今年秋季重新开放学校的艰难决定。”
联邦政府对学校的指导令人困惑且不清晰。尽管疾病预防控制中心建议学校采取安全措施，如戴口罩和尽可能让学生保持6英尺的距离，但唐纳德·特朗普总统批评这些指导方针过于严厉且昂贵。副总统迈克·彭斯承诺在本周结束前提供更多的建议。
雷德菲尔德后来讲述美国广播公司的“早安美国”节目称，疾病预防控制中心不打算修改其最初的指导方针。
雷德菲尔德在一次采访中说:“这不是对指导方针的修订，它只是提供额外的信息，帮助学校能够使用我们提出的指导方针。”
雷德菲尔德表示:“目前，我们正继续与当地司法机构合作，研究他们希望如何利用我们提供的一系列指导，使他们的学校重新开学变得切实可行。”他强调说，这些指导原则不是要求，而是“有意非指令性的”，旨在为当地司法机构提供“一系列战略”。
他补充道:“我真的想说的一件事会让我个人感到难过，我知道，我的机构也感到难过，那就是，如果个人使用我们提出的这些(指导方针)作为关闭学校的理由。”
White House blocks CDC director from testifying on schools reopening
The White House on Friday blocked Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from testifying before Congress next week on how toreopen schools safely, ABC News has confirmed.
The White House is defending the decision to block Redfield's testimony in a statement from an anonymous official.
"Dr. Redfield has testified on the Hill at least four times over the last three months. We need our doctors focused on the pandemic response," the official stated.
The CDC has said it's still working on additional guidance for schools that now isn't likely to be ready until the end of the month. The delay in delivering a clear national plan for schools has angered many local officials and teachers, who say they lack the information they need on whether it's safe to return to school next month.
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Rep. Bobby Scott, the Democratic chairman of the House Education & Labor Committee who had invited Redfield to testify, said he want school reopenings to be guided by public health experts.
"It is alarming that the Trump administration is preventing the CDC from appearing before the committee at a time when its expertise and guidance is so critical to the health and safety of students, parents, and educators," said Scott, D-Va.
"This lack of transparency does a great disservice to the many communities across the country facing difficult decisions about reopening schools this fall," he added.
Federal guidance on schools has been confusing and unclear. While the CDC has recommended that schools impose safety measures like masks and keeping students six feet apart, if possible, President Donald Trump has criticized the guidelines as too tough and expensive. Vice President Mike Pence had promised additional recommendations by the end of this week.
Redfield latertoldABC's "Good Morning America" that the CDC was not planning to revise its initial guidelines.
"It's not a revision of the guidelines, it's just to provide additional information to help the schools be able to use the guidance that we put forward," Redfield claimed in an interview.
"Right now we're continuing to work with the local jurisdictions to how they want to take the portfolio of guidance we've given to make them practical for their schools to reopen," Redfield said, stressing that the guidelines are not requirement but are "intentionally non-prescriptive" to provide a "spectrum of strategies" for local jurisdictions.
He added: "The one thing I really want to say that would personally sadden me and, I know, my agency, is if individuals were to use these [guidelines] that we put out as a rationale to keep schools closed."
