evidence: On July 11 2020, the following tweet claimed that the United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — in the course of arguing in favor of reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic — asserted that "only 0.02 percent" of American schoolchildren would die, a percentage that represented the deaths of approximately 14,740 children: [...] Birx didn’t say that "only .02 percent" of schoolchildren were expected to die of COVID-19 during the 2020-2021 school year. It seemed likely Birx was referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s July 8 2020 "Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics," which we have archived here. A chart showed deaths by age group, with the first and lowest as Americans under the age of 25: [...] - So, Betsy Devos today said "only" .02% of kids are likely to die when they go back to school. That's 14,740 children. Welcome back!