The more relevant question is whether he advised keeping schools closed on a broad scale the following year. Keeping [schools closed] for a year was not a good idea.” Several surveys I conducted for a book on the politics of pandemic school closures show that Americans understood Fauci’s position very differently. First: Whether, fairly or not, Fauci became the public face of keeping schools closed. I then asked everyone whether keeping schools closed for more than a year had been the right or wrong decision.