U.S. President Donald Trump pushed for schools to reopen and sharply disagreed with the nation’s top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, who warned this week against sending students back to class too soon.
“We have to get the schools open, we have to get our country open,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business aired on Thursday.
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