Kids are losing precious development time being kept at home.

And there is evidence they get sick and transmit the virus less frequently than others.

For those reasons, the American Academy of Pediatrics said this week,

the goal for fall should be students physically present in school.

So, it does require a little bit of the society coming together and decide what's important.

Andy Slavitt, who served as director of the Medicare and Medicaid programs under President Obama,

said, here's another reason to reopen schools.

He can't open the economy unless kids have somewhere to be, all their parents are at work.

So he says, maybe we should focus less on opening bars and restaurants,

and more on getting cases under control.

The more important for us to wear masks,

or is it more important for us to send our kids to school?

Is it more important to go to bars, or is it more important to try to get the economy fully moving again?

That's going to be a really important set of decisions we're going to face in the next weeks, just not immediately.

Coming up about those decisions and how we are all making them,

this is considered this from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Friday, July 3rd.

A lot of people will be celebrating Fourth of July this weekend.

But for many people, it'll be tough. This country, far and away,

leads the world in coronavirus cases, and in the number of people who have died.

Nearly 130,000 people, the next closest country, is Brazil,

when more than 60,000 people have died.

So how did we get here?

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