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American rescue plan in the first month we are in office or second month we are in office or second month that i signed in march we provided the states with hundred and 30 billion, with a b, $1 billion to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. funding for ventilation, ventilation systems to the schools, social distancing in classrooms, even larger classrooms with up on buses and everything from bus drivers to buses, the actual bus,... and all this process weve included an addition...

The precautions theyve been telling us to take, the vaccinations, the boosters, social distancing because they are overrun. thats whats happening here in metro atlanta, but we are seeing it happen all across the nation, fredricka. a 48% increase in pediatric hospitalizations in just the past week. that is concerning. listen to one doctor talk about why he expects to see more pediatric hospitalizations in the coming days. >> youre certainly going to see a lot of pediatric hospitalizations more th...

Said could be a blessing, because it gives you the antibodies you need to fight the virus. at the same time gives you mild symptoms with the virus for the most part. now, i understand that there are things challenges bus drivers and actual teachers who get it you cant go in. if you are steve doocy on monday you are not teaching a class. i understand that. there is 4500 schools who took at least one day off there are school districts in atlanta and milwaukee, 80 in philadelphia that took days off...

Measures. they wanted to go online. but now with no remote learning, hundreds of thousands of children are caught in the middle just hours after president biden said this. >> we provided the states with 130 billion, with a billion, billion dollars to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. funding for ventilation, ventilation systems in the schools, social distancing in classrooms, even larger classrooms, on buses. everything from bus drivers to buses. so i encourage the states and...

Classrooms. on buses and everything from bus drivers to buses on the actual bus, theres a lot of reason to be hopeful in 2020. but for gods sake, please take advantage of whats available. please. you are going to save lives. may be yours. maybe your childs. >> sean: you make tests, monoclonals, antivirals available, joe? did you catch any of that? so many reasons to be hopeful? joe said in 2020, he said 2020. joe, its 2022. god help us. i do not know whats worse here. is it that he doesnt know w...

Is so much more transmissible. talking about the virus with measles transmission. when you try to do this in the throes of this screaming level of transmission testing and contract tracing become problematic, you have teachers, bus drivers with breakthrough covid infections. the question is when you have so many staff and teachers and bus drivers and everyone you need to support the school, the cafeteria workers out, can you run the school? that becomes a big issue as well and as we skuszed ther...

And frankly, they just are not going to. >> lets talk about the children as we have before, your grandchildren before the holiday and whether or not you were going to see them, and what about sending children back into class? what were hearing from dr. fauci and others is that the lag in their education during the long year of home schooling with so many children disadvantaged and the digital divide and all the other problems we know about, really set kids back, the socialization, and they shoul...

Be vaccinated, surround your kids with people who are vaccinated. we know that our kids can be safe when in school, by the way. social distancing class with larger classrooms on buses and everything from bus drivers to buses to the actual bus. >> laura: what is he talking about here? is any of this held up with the case numbers that have come in from schools over the last couple of years? >> look, im glad you asked, laura. first of all, the case numbers in children how relevant are they? you cou...

School, by the way. i believe schools should remain open. they have what they need. because of the american rescue plan, the first or second month we were in office i signed in march, we provided the states with 130 billion, with a b, billion dollars to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. funding for ventilation, ventilation systems in the schools, social distancing in classrooms, even larger classrooms. on busses, everything from bus drivers to busses, the actual bus. addition...

City, the nations largest school district is down to 76%. in los angeles, chicago, and boston, school attendance is hovering around 70%. its all 20% lower than the typical rate. houston and miami fairing much better at 90%. the drop comes amid a record 580,000 kids testing positive for covid nationwide, forcing even more into quarantine and convincing anxious parents to keep their healthy kids at home. meanwhile, staff shortages are forcing thousands of public schools to temporarily cancel in pe...