Heidi Alexander: “Today, our committee--the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee--had its last hearing of the year, and it was…”

“Today, our committee--the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee--had its last hearing of the year, and it was my last hearing as chairman of the committee. While we are on the theme of education, one of the interesting--and I am here today to give a little report on what I consider to be an unprecedented sprint toward success in three areas: vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic testing. I asked Dr. Fauci, who was one of the witnesses, this question: Dr. Fauci, there are a lot of outbreaks on college campuses around the country as millions of students go back to thousands of colleges. Is the right thing to do to send the students home? He said: Absolutely not. That is the wrong thing to do. Segregate the students from the other students in the college until they are well-- and the people they have exposed until they are well--and then go on. Don't send them home to infect their parents and their grandparents and the community from which they came. I think that is important advice for the college administrators all over America who are dealing with this issue very bravely. I know at the University of Tennessee they had a big outbreak. It was some poor judgment on behalf of a number of students who had just gone back to school. You can just imagine 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds, they all want to get together. Well, they got together, and they infected one another, and they had a big outbreak--maybe 750, the Governor said, but it is now down to 150. So Dr.…”