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Is it a resource issue? is it literally a manufacturing hold up that we cant get these more tests available in the places we need it? >> you know, i think that what i saw happening was back in june, back in early july when the numbers were going down, down, down. when we were seeing 10,000 cases a day. incredibly low numbers. the push to get programs of perspective testing in schools went away. the cdc guidance around schools called on having testing programs when you were seeing significant or ...

Emergency use for the vaccine for kids under 12 has been so long delayed? >> well, you know, chuck, i think it comes down to the importance of having really good information. the younger you are, thankfully, the less likely you are to have severe disease, to be hospitalized and to die. and if you want the fda to approve the authorization of these vaccines for kids, if you want the advisory committee and the cdc to recommend them, youre really going to have to show that theyre incredibly safe and...

Their communities. this is, this is were playing for real here. this isnt a game. >> there are, of course, many questions facing the white house on the implementation and enforcement of these new rules. many of which have yet to actually be formally written. there are, of course, many political questions facing the president and his party because weve said it so many times but it bears repeating. how covid goes so go the biden presidency. it is that simple. acting cdc director dr. richard besser...

Are defying the governors order. including broward county, which is the second-largest school district in the state. and also, just today, leon county, in tallahassee, the superintendent there had -- he -- he has now issued a mask mandate. but earlier, he had sent a letter to the governor asking for autonomy and flexibility. and that whole exchange went sideways because he ended up issuing that mask mandate, today, in response to the governors threat to withhold his salary. that superintendent i...

Down. not as many people on ventilators as there were before. so, basicallying nothing to look at here. dont worry about it, kids, go back to school. you dont need a mask mandate, anderson. >> randi, appreciate it. thanks lets get perspective now from dr. richard besser. peetdia trigz and former acting cdc director. also, cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. so, sanjay, you hear the governor seeking to penalize educators trying to get masks in schools. saying a responsible business...

Place. but you have a choice, and can send your -- your child to school with -- with a mask on. you have a choice, and you can get vaccinated. knowing that getting vaccinated helps protect you. but it, also, helps protect your children and others who -- who may not be able to get vaccinated, now. or who may have an immune problem, where the vaccine isnt -- isnt as effective as -- as you like to see. i hope that we -- we create space to allow governors to -- to make changes in what theyre doing. ...

So politicized? or is, generally, if youre against a mandate of vaccine for children in school, is it because youre against all vaccines? >> no, there is -- and -- and we have two opportunities. one is right now because kids are preparing to go back to school. and the other one will come in september. i believe the -- the -- the center for disease control, the cdc, will approve, officially, the vaccine. there wont be a conditionary approval. it will be a full approval and that will convince mill...