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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 147 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.

Today's main story, parents, teachers, and school boards are facing urgent and difficult decisions about whether and how to send kids back to school.

Part of why that's so hard is that we still don't know enough about what this virus does to children

and those around them.

But first, here's what happened in virus news today.

The sped-up timeline to make a vaccine doesn't mean it won't be safe.

That's according to Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert,

who spoke to Bloomberg Television today.

We pay particular attention to safety, and the rapidity with which we are moving relates more

to technological advances in how you can make a vaccine,

even before you start testing it, that makes me confident that we are going to do everything

we can to determine safety.

Fauci has said the government strategy is to fund several vaccine projects in the hopes

one or more will be effective. That creates a financial risk, he says, but not a health one.

The Chicago public school system, the third largest in the U.S., backed away from a plan for part-time in-person attendance blended with remote learning and will conduct all classes online.

The district will assess if it's safe to open to hybrid learning in November.

The decision comes as case numbers rise in the city

and is based on public health data and survey results

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