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Rates. um, and i think we all hope that they are right. but -- but it is going to have -- we are going to have to wait and see until we get to march to know if that is right. as for now, i particularly, personally, will be wearing a mask indoors because i still dont want to catch a highly contagious disease even though i am vaccinated and protected from something serious. >> earlier today on cnn, jersey governor phil murphy was asked what factors he was looking at when making the decision to end...

Government out if vaccine mandates are not dropped. one, vaccine mandates in canada are federal and the senate is appointed and has no ability to kick out elected officials. >> thank you so much for joining us. a wild story up there in ottawa. appreciate all the reporting and your time. thank you. now on to new jersey where the governor announced plans to lift school mandates in the second week of march. students and school employees will no longer have to cover up in the classroom. >> we are ...

Getting more children vaccinated will make schools safe. if were going to remove one of the layers of safety lets make sure we get the other layers robustly in place. whether it be a 2% positivity rate, a 1%, i think it might depend on the scenario were looking at. the rules for schools might not -- need to be stronger. adults in an office setting can be spaced and do fine perhaps without masks. i think it needs to be a case count and whats going on region by region. >> i think your point about ...

100,000 people? >> so, cdc puts that at about seven cases per 100,000 people, 49 cases per week, so you can look on the cdc website. somewhere around there, 5 to 10, is where people would feel comfortable. right now nationally i think, brianna, were at 35 cases per 100,000. so about a third of that i think would be pretty good for moderate. so we go from high to substantial to moderate. >> so let me -- i want to ask you a question, this is something i came across in my family, i have a relative ...

Indefinite remote learning. and jake, while we are seeing some states making this long-awaited move away from masks in schools, the white house has not changed its position. the administration does continue to encourage the use of masks in schools. they say that is the cdc recommendation. >> thank you. here to discuss, from new jersey, phil murphy. also the vice chair of the governors association. so two years ago, your state and new york were the early epicenters of the virus and you imposed th...

Do, continue to look at case count. right now theyre right, far too early to say its time to change course, still have 300,000 cases. but if we continue to see what governor murphy predicts, further into the spring youll see the cdc start to take action. remember, every time they take action they get criticized because they dont -- say take off masks and five or six months later, something will happen, someone will say aha, theyre wrong. they have to do when they think its right, not jump the gu...

Weeks from now when this will be lifted in terms of -- of a hitle bit better weather and ventilation options. you put all that together, you analyze those data streams and realities its pretty clear that this, in our judgment, is the right, responsible step to take. >> so, do these sound like reasonable metrics for loosening restrictions? should the white house follow this? >> well, look. if you are a governor, good news is few and far between and governor murphy is one of the best. he is -- he ...

To some restrictions. these are responsible governors with great vaccination rates, and we all hope theyre right. but were going to have to wait and see for march to know. for now, i personally will be wearing a mask indoors. still dont want to catch a highly contagious disease, even though im vaccinated and protected from something serious. >> earlier today, new jersey governor phil murphy was asked what factors he looked at for ending school masking next month. here it is. >> a number of facto...

Look, the game clock is still ticking. we cant afford to pause and we cant stop playing while the movement is still in motion. we need to be watching case levels at a very hyper fashion, meaning how many infections are there where you live? what are the access to vaccines, to treatments? whats the surge in the hospitals in the community where you are? are we ready to pull back some of those bedrock and baseline preventions? i dont think we are. if were following the data and the science, well be...

Protocols, last guidance were based on delta which per individual was far more severe than omicron which has dominated the covid landscape. and they needed to switch to recognize that. although omicron is far less severe. its based on case count, assuming every case is very serious, instead, theyre also including metrics that include the proportion of hospital beds occupied by covid patients and hospitalizations per person. so, i think this is a recognition that we are not going to get to covid ...