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Twitter and its not something that i had considered, but a viewer is asking, what can parents do to ensure their kids wear their masks at school especially in states like florida. kids will be subjected to peer pressure, even bullying if they are some of the few wearing masks. just remind everyone floridas governor there has banned local mask mandates. so dr. patel, whats a parent to do? no parent wants their kid getting bullied for any reason. >> thats right, craig, and they shouldnt be. number...

>> im dasha burns in washington county, tennessee where schools have re-opened with no mask mandate, no social distancing requirements and no strict protocols for quarantining children who have been exposed at school. i was speaking to the ceo of the childrens hospital who says she and her fellow health workers are doing all they can to convince leadership at the district level and the county level to take more action, but theyre searching for ways to make the point, to make their voices heard a...

We dont care or what, me worry? and this is problematic and the social distancing recommendations from cdc. if you read them closely you realize they all assume universal mask wearing and i dont know what you do with social distancing rules, and thats going to be really tough to do this when you have such a screaming high level of transmission. if the kids arent vaccinated and masked its hard to imagine how this is going to go well and im predicting were going to see a lot of schools return to v...

You know you talked about that for younger kids, when are the 12 and under kids getting a mistake. there could be a change in the emergency investigation to get the younger kids vaccinated. but a big issue is masks that you have been talking about with dr. patel. all students, staechers staffing with everyone indoors should be wearing a mask regardless of their vaccination status. its part of this broader recommendation. really a change in recommendation that said even vaccinated people should b...

So we asked you to send in your questions. we have two experts. a former obama white house policy director who is also an msnbc contributor. dr. peter hotez as well. dr. patel well start with you. i want to ask about what we just heard fromming alyson there. how concerned are you there about what is going on perhaps a bellweather. >> it is, this is a very large canary in a cole mine. this is avoidable. and you pass the masks for

We want to do everything possible and talk to then your child about you might get somebody who says something to you and makes fun of you. heres why youre wearing a mask and how youre protecting all of us and your friends and give them some of the tools to be able to respond about why theyre wearing a mask and you never know, craig, they might be able to convince some of the other children that thats the right thing to do. >> thats a good point, dr. patel. lets check in with nbcs maura barrett. ...

Places like florida where there is a ban on mask requirements and theyre looking at things they can do to help out school districts. >> all right, shannon pettypiece for us on friday. i want to get back to some more questions. the schools at this pandemic, dr. patel and dr. ho tez are back with us. lets get to this question from shirley. are children mostly getting covid from each other or from adults? also, what should parents have on hand if they get sick. >> first to your point, yes, yes, and...

Patel, a gargantuan thanks for sticking around for the hour and answering all of those viewer questions and listener questions. we realize we did not get to a fraction of them. so we will do it again next week. well devote an entire hour next week to answering your questions about the virus and getting kids back to school, but for now that will do it for this hour of msnbc live. thank you for joining us for this q and a about keeping kids safe as they head back to school. more questions about he...