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Otherwise healthy children and adults. but both can be more severe, specifically in children under the age of 5. specifically if they also test positive for rsv. those have higher rates of hospitalization. at the end of the day, the recommendation is to get flu shots for all children and especially those that are high risk the same as the covid vaccine. especially children who have not already recovered from covid-19 so they dont have the protection of natural immunity. >> ainsley: are you seein...

Two of my favorites. thank you both so much for being with us. dr. gounder, paint a picture for us. what would this change in strategy look like, lets say, in the next month? >> well, i think weve been very focused on vaccination as the way out of this. dont get me wrong. vaccination is number one, number two, number three most important tools in the toolbox. but understanding that we cannot eliminate covid, we cannot eradicate covid, we will have to continue to coexist with it if we want to bri...

>> we have to weigh the risk and benefit. the cdc and the aap have declared a mental health crisis in our country in the united states. and thats some serious business. were seeing more suicide, more severe depression and anxiety, and really the only thing different in the past year or two was that children were learning remotely. and i have a stepdaughter whos 12 and shes vaccinated and she is going on monday to school. i have to say that the biggest thing that i tell my parrtients and they all...

Education, even in times of significant community transmission, and propose new guidance that reduces excessive burden to school staff and families." that new guidance in brief -- continue indoor masking regardless of vaccination status. people with respiratory illness must stay home while symptomatic. those with mild illness should get tested if there is high risk of severe infection. discontinue required weekly testing of people with no symptoms. allow exposed but asymptomatic individuals to c...

Where you have high transmission, washington, d.c., new york city, for example. >> if they delay opening, the best data that we have is that that will contribute, jim, to sp spread. >> because theyre not at school, theyre at home, is what youre saying? >> often times when children are not in school, they dont just stay in their household 16 or 24 hours a day. they do other things outside of home. and when they do that, theyre often times less masked when they are in schools that have a mask poli...

Governors abbott, et cetera, that used political perspectives to deflect people from doing the one thing that we know works, which is to get vaccinated and tested and to wear masks in indoor spaces. in a certain sense it is beyond science and public health experts and is in the domain of communicators and media. we all need to do a much better job of explaining to people what is at stake. listening to governor desantis, you want to pull your hair out. >> still arguing masking is not necessary. y...

And get them in the schools and in the community and were happy about the response from the president and the white house. >> so youre adamant about keeping new york schools open and many parents are applauding you for that. elgt experts say the way to keep schools open safely is with vaccines and masking and vent lags and widespread testing. right now new york uses a complicated opt-in randomized testing program that only covers a fraction of teachers in schools. the teachers have calling for w...

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Districts are saying the same things that we are. we see the data that is not collected to start with. and second, it is, gosh, it is hard to quantify. so im a teacher who is vaccinated and had a break-through case of covid and my vaccinated husband was hospitalized. and it was traumatic to my family. and having lived that and asking me to subject my students and their families who are even more vulnerable, it feels wrong, especially when there are very basic, again, basic steps that were asking...

Doses are necessary for the broad swath of population. maybe if you just had a solid organ transplant. if youre that individual, you might need a fourth shot, but for the rest of us, no evidence of benefit. so clarity of messaging here is going to be key. i do love what im seeing from say, senator sanders and the senate when it comes to n -- making n95s more available to more american households. i know the president, this is a big priority of the presidents as well, because andrea, this type of...