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The influx of patients. last week we heard from state officials who warned residents that they should be extra careful when driving a car or riding a bike, because you dont want to end up in the emergency room and take away resources that are already there, with the lines youre seeing for the emergency rooms. many of them converting hallways, converting conference rooms into extra beds for patient care. theyre having to lower the standards in a way that they say is frustrating. the idea is not o...

From the beginning. we know that other mitigation efforts like masking and distancing are important. we know that testing is a part of the response infrastructure and we know that suring up and strengthening our health care system so we can take care of those are essential too. >> lets bring in dr. ebony hilton. lets take a listen to arkansas republican governor from this morning. >> we have to overcome resistance. this is a very serious deadly virus and were all together in trying to get and in...

Have, and again, looking at what weve learned from that period of time and having tools like masking, vaccines, all of the ventilation issues, we used a multi-layered approach to create the safest possible controlled environment in schools so we can keep kids safe while they learn in the best environment possible. i think its the thread of delta and the information and frankly the science thats been collected around the delta variant and its transmissibility and the fact that it is affecting kid...

To re-set. hes got to explain again and push harder against those people who are resisting him on vaccines, resisting public health science, resisting what will get the nation out of this nightmare that were in to try to get us out of that nightmare. that is going to be the critical. weve seep his assessment and competence on covid go down and that is a function of circumstances and he has to get on top of that. >> but will folks be listening. john harwood at the white house and dr. sanjay gupta...

Infrastructure and communities grant program that was authorized by the disaster recovery resilience act is going to continue to give us larger amounts of money than we have ever had before. this is a start. we do have a long way to go and a lot of investment that needs to be made. >> chris: well, lets talk about investment because the senate passed this 1 trillion dollars bipartisan infrastructure plan. i have to say, i studied a lot of stuff with whats in it, but i didnt particularly study thi...

Clear cut and backed by science, would many countries in europe as you mentioned uk, would they be doing it as well and how come the world health organization hasnt backed it and thats because its not black and white. as far as i know, theres no clear-cut evidence to support especially young children wearing masks in school. the cdcs own data has shown no significantly reduction of children wearing masks. theyve always been by multiple mitigation efforts and on top of that, one to have largest s...

Infrastructure and communities grant program that was authorized by the disaster recovery resilience act is going to continue to give us larger amounts of money than we have ever had before. this is a start. we do have a long way to go and a lot of investment that needs to be made. >> chris: well, lets talk about investment because the senate passed this 1 trillion dollars bipartisan infrastructure plan. i have to say, i studied a lot of stuff with whats in it, but i didnt particularly study thi...

Really so black and white and clear cut and backed by science, would many countries in europe as you mentioned uk, would they be doing it as well and how come the world health organization hasnt backed it and thats because its not black and white. as far as i know, theres no clear-cut evidence to support especially young children wearing masks in school. the cdcs own data has shown no significantly reduction of children wearing masks. theyve always been by multiple mitigation efforts and on top ...

Discipline or if a parent or the student themselves or a care giver just report that the child has been harassed. were doing that because even in the order they gave us it was so vague. >> so they are punishing you with dumb paperwork for a masking requirement to try to protect the school. have parents been generally how have parents been about this? >> overwhelmingly supportive. everywhere im going, when im interacting with community members, when im interacting out at our school sites, of cour...

Just reports that the child has been harassed. were doing that because even in the order they gave us was so vague. >> so they are punishing you, with some paperwork. for a masking requirement. to try to protect the school. have parents been generally how parents been about this? >> overwhelmingly supportive, everywhere im going, when im interacting with the community members, when im interacting out at our school sites, of course there are parents there as well. every one of them. thank you. th...