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There are millions of families suffering unnecessarily from a disease that we know is really preventable. we knew from the beginning through masking and distancing you could prevent it, but now we have all these other tools. we need to do more testing, but we now for really excellent vaccines, multiple vaccines. we know it can save lives. but like brittnys family, like many of my patients and millions of other americans that still remain unvaccinated, this pandemic continues. we know what needs ...

Sotomayor said it is not a vaccine mandate as all. there is a testing and masking alternative. she calls it a mask mandate. the attorney who argued for the businesses challenging the mandate says there will be a negative impact immediately on the u.s. economy if the regulation goes into effect because it is estimated that 1 to 3% of the workforce would quit. he argues the department of labor is going far beyond the powers congress delegated to it for the specific task of regulating safety in the...

Make sure we are doing everything we possibly can to protect the welfare of our front line employees but patients and visitors as well. we think we can accomplish that through this new guidance. >> in addition to being in line with federal guidelines, you would like people to be on the same page. why do you think, in and of itself, five days is the right decision? >> well, we certainly know that from the very beginning of the pandemic our hospital employees in particular have been following very...

Was, you know, thank you for asking this question about whether the american people have more or lets confidence two years, in the cdc, two years into this pandemic. she said thanks because, look, its an evolving issue. the science is evolving, the crisis is evolving, and im trying my best. on that level, i guess thats the best she could do. but, you know, people do have questions about the extent to which we should quarantine, whether or not a negative test is required. theres no question about...

To be done. we need probably 2 to 3 billion tests a months, not hundreds of millions. billions of tests a month, if we want people in america to take, say, two tests a week before gatherings and other things. and then you have masking. we have to upgrade from sort of flimsy cotton masks to really serious k95, kn95 masks. wear them indoors. wear them outdoors if youre going to a crowded situation. then we have ventilation, which has not been well publicized here, getting hepa filters and making s...

Ideally, you are double masking so if you really want to do that cloth mask, too, you can do the three-ply surgical mask and then you can put the cloth mask that is more well fitting on top of that. even better would be the n95, kn95 or kf94, the respiratory -- the respirator masks. and really, at this point, we should all be wearing these very high-quality masks. if our country and different jurisdictions are going to go as far as to mandate masks in some settings, lets at least wear the most e...

Decide where the kids should go to school, pick which school you go to, nobody should be controlling education other than the parent, thats who should be doing this. whether its what you get taught or when schools are open, the parents are to be making the choices and if your school wants to be closed, the parent ought to have a voucher to go to another school, send the child to another school. >> john: we remember last spring, head of the american federation of teachers, second largest teachers...

>> theyve been at the bargaining table this afternoon and part of the concern from the chicago teachers union is they dont believe the current measures in place from the school district are enough to keep students and staff safe in person. and that comes from not enough access to testing. also the fact that only about one-third of the total student population is vaccinated, even though the rate for teachers is much higher. within the context of record covid-19 case num berss over the course of t...

Might as well defend the constitution and do what he did on january 6th of last year again. so well see. >> cynthia, what about the fact that the committee is interested in pence tell you right now? >> it tells me theyre zeroing in on the coup itself and not just focusing on on the entrance into the capitol. here they are poised to probably subpoena jordan perry, navarro, looking pretty hard at giuliani, some of these other people, and now theyre going to talk to pence. they have been very polit...

Jen, thank you for being here. >> good morning. >> how much coffee -- >> not enough. >> thats an evergreen answer for all of us. americans are about to travel in what could be record numbers for the holidays. so why isnt a vaccination requirement for domestic travel part of the presidents plan during this covid surge? >> its a good question, jonathan, i think its one we get asked pretty frequently its because we know that masking can be very effective on airplanes. thats a restriction that weve ...