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Teacher vaccinations, there were ways to keep everyone safe with masking and ventilation it testing. after vaccines schools became very safe because teachers were given priority for vaccines, and now we have to vaccine for children down to the age of 5. so putting it all together in january of 2022 we shouldnt be closing schools. no matter how many cases there are because we have so much opportunity to get vaccines, and we still have the mitigation procedures in place. so im sad to see this happ...

Causes a surge on your health care systems and those who are unvaccinated still are having worse outcomes with this particular variant as we saw with other variants. so we really should change how we talk about omicron and just make sure that people understand that its contagious. its spreading rapidly and there are things they can do to protect themselves as well as things that systems need to be doing to ensure that the public is kept safe. >> dr. offit, sometimes it feels like were in two dif...

>> its been frustrating to sit at home, healthy, and wanting to be in the classroom. i, you know, disagree that we should have a district wide shutdown. when you send kids home, you got a million kids who will be spending time in shelters or bedrooms of friends, and safe havens, and we know that places that are legible to the state are where you can do those basic mitigations, like masking and ventilation, regulations. and cps schools have been doing that. and, yes, i feel safe. my kids have had...

Ben. you went out and talked to these people including this woman part of the insurrection or at least allegedly. talk about this sort of confluence of january 6th big lie conspiracy and anti masking and anti-vax. >> yeah, you know, in the days after the 6th, these people had to regroup. they had to hide for a minute, frankly, because the fbi was on their tail. their faces were on social media posted by the fbi and they needed a different message because they realize this is a failing one. these...

Every right to ask what happened to the money, where the money went and why they didnt get a test for their $82 billion. that is the subject that they can continue to try to bear down on here. with regard to masking, listen to this from scott gottlieb, the former fda commissioner. >> this is an airborne illness. a cloth mask wont protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. could protect better through droplet transmission but not like this coronavirus. >> martha: you kno...

Cetera, without vaccination cards. you have shared with us many times how often you encounter pissed off, unvaccinated people. do we want more of them? would that work here in the u.s.? >> you know, i dont know if i would choose his words, but im honestly frankly tired of people who are against early on mitigation measures. masking and locking down certain activities and now who are against vaccines and vaccine mandates, but im tired of them dominating the headlines of the ones who are angry and...

Again. so well see. >> cynthia, as a former prosecutor, what is the fact that the committee is interested in pans tell you about where they are right now? >> it tells me that they are zeroing in on the coup itself, and not just focusing on the entrance into the capitol. i mean, 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 polite about first asking, and then...

They are calling it science but it isnt. we need science. we need serious science because its what advances better health. it advances technology that makes our lives better. provides a greater sense of capacity to get out of poverty. those are all things that science can do. but, what theyre masking as science is not science at all. its basically word salad creating all of these, as kira mentioned, social justice ideas and its not healthy to the american people, to the american economy, or to t...

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...

Masking, testing and vaccines, kids should be in school. that the academic, psychological and emotional damage done during remote learning was too substantial and there are ways to safely go back to school. students in milwaukee, atlanta and cleveland, however, are going back to school remotely this week. the cdc keeps saying, kids should be in person. listen to what one mom told cnns gabe cohen. >> every time we talks about school, he gets anxiety. worried about omicron. worried about courses. ...