Think Out Loud

“It’s time to call it -- schools shouldn’t reopen in the fall!” That was the stark language in a tweet that Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran sent out over the weekend. Meieran is also an emergency room doctor at Kaiser Permanente hospitals, and she wants to see her fellow politicians take the pandemic more seriously. We hear from Meieran about what steps she thinks the county and the state should take and why she thinks it’s so hard for politicians to be guided by science.