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Theyve put out aimed at putting kids in classrooms. the prominent health care system said in a statement, weve evidenced that infection in most children and at a time where all adults and youth in k-12 settings have been offered vaccination, childrens philadelphia and policylab support in-person education, even in times of significant community transmissions. that new guidance, continued indoor masking regardless of vaccination status. people with respiratory illness must stay home. those with i...

Sort of try and make any predictions here. >> just quickly, cloth masks? yes? no? obviously, n95, kn95 is better but i mean what about cloth masks? >> well, im -- >> im really concerned about cloth masks with -- >> oh, sorry. it was for sanjay. admiral, go ahead. >> i am really concerned about cloth masks with the omicron, particularly the single -- single-layer cloth masks. um, the -- that kind of masking .was probably, you know, relatively effective with other variants but with this one, i thi...

Days. what i would say is that, you know, although thats happening, they are not nearly at the level of prior waves thus far. we are at less than half of the number of patients, number of patients hospitalized in new york city compared to last winters surge and less than a tenth compared to the really, you know, terrifying memories that we have of march and april of 2020. so our hospitals are still holding, but we want to do everything that we can to prevent people from getting sick enough to ha...

Have to continue to look out and protect our children, vaccination, masking, those are important things that continue to do. julie: right. its also important to note that a lot of those positive covid tests were not children that went to the hospital because of covid, they were actually there for other reasons, perhaps scheduled surgeries amongst other issues and they tested positiver while they were in the hospital but also just want to emphasize too t fact that omicron is not necessarily more ...

If you are vaccinated join the nearly 80 million americans who have gotten the booster shot with the strongest protection. vaccines are safe. theyre free and theyre widely available so do it today for the sake of your kids and the sake of the country. i dont like to you know, outline the next steps were taking against, i like to outline the next steps were taking against the omicron variant. vaccinations are the most important thing were doing with you not the only important thing. first, maskin...

Has argued through masking, vaccinations, testing, and more that school is still safer than being at home even with record numbers of cases among students, staff, and in chicago in recent weeks. >> the difference between now and a year ago was obviously we have vaccines for a huge swath of our school-based population. i think that the issues that are on the table as i wanted them, we can narrow the divide and get a deal done. schools are safe. theres been no question about that. >> reporter: the...

To truthful information dissemination and transparency. the only difference between the carpet on fire and outlook is that this has deadly ramifications and that is what americans are dealing with with the death of livelihood and the death of actual humans. it is unacceptable and we will see a reckoning. >> emily: coming up, the coveted crisis at our kids. bear from the constant masking to schools closing down again and a teachers union president backing a vaccine mandate for children as young a...

Clear, we have in hand all the vaccines we need to get every american fully vaccinated, including the booster shot. there is no excuse, no excuse for ever and he won being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. so weve got to make more progress. and for patients who still havent gotten your kids vaccinated, please get them vaccinated. look out for their interest here. its the best way to protect them. and for parents with kids too young to be vaccinated, surround your...

Problem. so what about guidance for people who are vaccinated versus unvaccinated? has that changed at all? should it? >> so what they have tried to say is that if you are vaccinated and boosted, then you only have to wear a mask, dont worry about quarantining if you are exposed. but if youboosted or not vaccinated, you still have to quarantine for five days if exposed. it is hard to remember all that. what the easiest thing to remember, that masking. i think that masking is going to be the key ...

Over masking and other covid precautions. melanie zanona covers capitol hill. this debate is back up, new proposals on the table. >> a lot of concern about a spike in cases as lawmakers and staff return to washington this week and weve already seen a number of cases increase. alexandria ocasio-cortez, john katko and ben klein have all recently announced they had positive covid diagnosis seize so congress is stepping up its health protocol providing k-95 matches instead of surgical masks and ther...