2020-07-17 | Florida health directors told not to give schools advice on reopening
'Claude Dharamraj, who served as Pinellas County’s health director from 2006 to 2015, said of the public schools. “Schools are educators; they are not health experts. '
'But at the same time that Corcoran, a DeSantis appointee, was requiring Health Department approval to keep classrooms closed, health directors were being told not to make a recommendation at all. '
'The idea that health directors should not give school boards recommendations on such a weighty public health matter is an extraordinary shift, one that runs contrary to county health departments’ historic role, two former health directors said.“Yes, we always advise them what to do. '
'Corcoran’s emergency order pointed to one way around the state’s open-campus mandate: a waiver from state or county health officials. '
'In county after county the health directors’ refrain to school leaders was the same: Their role was to provide information, not recommendations. '
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'Claude Dharamraj, who served as Pinellas County’s health director from 2006 to 2015, said of the public schools. “Schools are educators; they are not health experts. '
'But at the same time that Corcoran, a DeSantis appointee, was requiring Health Department approval to keep classrooms closed, health directors were being told not to make a recommendation at all. '
'The idea that health directors should not give school boards recommendations on such a weighty public health matter is an extraordinary shift, one that runs contrary to county health departments’ historic role, two former health directors said.“Yes, we always advise them what to do. '
'Corcoran’s emergency order pointed to one way around the state’s open-campus mandate: a waiver from state or county health officials. '
'In county after county the health directors’ refrain to school leaders was the same: Their role was to provide information, not recommendations. '
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