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PELOSI: “Let me just say this, yesterday -- you know everything I do is about the children, that's the reason I -- you know, I have five children of my own, nice grandchildren. I worry about everybody's children in America, of course. I have advice for them whether they want it or not. And one of the things that is so terrible is in this epidemic, because we’re saying we have to assault the virus, we have to defeat the virus, contain the virus, stop the spread, and that means we have to have testing, tracing, treatment, masks, spacing all the rest of it. And we especially have to look into the minority community, which is suffering an undue disproportionate impact of this virus. Think of this, a Hispanic child is eight times more likely to be hospitalized with the virus than other children. Eight times. An African-American child is five times more likely to be hospitalized from the virus than other children. I mean, this is a challenge to our conscious. But, again, they refuse to face the gravity of the situation and listen to scientists and tell us what we need to do. And with their school money that they have, they want to spend overwhelming bulk of it, in only schools that open up.”
