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Of the pfizer—biontech vaccine. dr ashistha, dean of brown universitys school of public health, joins me now from newton, massachusetts. thank you very much indeed for joining us. it is a challenging time, clearly, especially for schools. i see iseea i see a figure of something like 1200 already closed. what should they do?— should they do? first of all, thanks for— should they do? first of all, thanks for having _ should they do? first of all, thanks for having me - should they do? first ...

Co covid cases. it will be 15,000 revelers, about one-fourth and everyone will have to show proof of vaccination and wear a mark of. im joined by the president of the times square alliance tom harris. im interested in the calculation here because there were some calling for the event to be cancelled. what made you guys to decide with the mitigation efforts in place you could move forward here? >> well, first, thank you very much for having me. we felt that it was important to show the world that...

Ultimate decision lies with our superintendent and our school board members and i know we did the right thing. >> i think the point that eric adams is making that a lot of parents feel, if you have mitigation efforts, the other mitigation efforts in place, like a vaccine mandate which i believe is going into place in detroit schools maybe next month for staffers -- >> 18th. >> if you have the mitigation measures in place like masking, and ventilation, and some -- and if you do all of these thing...

Other security organizations in europe. the fact that vladimir putin wants to talk suggests that there is a possibility that that could be a path toward de-escalation that will not involve military conflict. >> john, i also want to talk to you about covid this morning. omicron is forcing the biden administration to essentially shift their pandemic strategy. it feels like the goal early on was to go all-in on vaccination, and you can understand why. but they really did it over testing, and now it...

Newest offer for a list of mitigation efforts is says will make schools safer including optional random weekly school-based testing programs and stricter metrics in regards to when school should turn to remote classes and the number of infections in students and staff increasing were then tenfold in the last two weeks. the teachers union says its plan is the best option moving forward. >> it would give parents the clarity that we would begin instruction next week and we will begin in-person inst...

We need to continue that trend. >> jonathan lemire, i want to talk to you about masks n school, thats one of the mitigation efforts thats been in place for a while. we know some counties and states remaining controversial and there is lawsuits to prevent that from happening. can you deliver your message to us why that is so important particularly now with arrival of omicron surges and cases surging among children. >> absolutely. we know the mitigation strategy works. i am a father, i want my chi...

That all said, i think most of us have been expecting a relatively quick decline. obviously hoping that well see a relatively quick decline. thats what were seeing in new york city as you reported. were seeing that in washington, d.c. im hopeful this wastewater data is more evidence that were going to see it in boston and obviously were going to want to see it across the country. >> as we see it in new york city, as we see it in boston, as we see it in d.c., those are three cities. we have yet t...

Tonight, a showdown over re-opening schools and we are standing by for a vote any moment here from the powerful chicago teachers union which has been threatening to shut down americas third largest school district over chicagos decision to re-open public schools in the midst of the covid surge. and this is a battle that is playing out in many cities across this country. tens of millions of children are caught in the middle. many teachers unions claim proper mitigation efforts, like testing, are ...

Set up the school testing programs. 8.3 billion has gone to community testing sites including for the uninsured and at the community health centers and pharmacy programs, dr. walensky mentioned it. 5 billion gone to procure tests and supplies and an additional 4.5 billion will go towards the 500 million tests that are in the process of pro curing. the testing money as you recall was for testing, contact tracing, and mitigation efforts. some of that funds have been used for mitigation efforts. fo...

Now, school systems across the u.s. are increasingly putting in-person learning on hold as the omicron variant continues to cause covid cases to spike and teachers unions to worry over safety. new infections are averaging more than 600,000 a day, and all-time highs you can see there on your screen. health experts are warning that the highly transmissible variant will continue to drive up both cases as well as hospitalizations. now, they say numbers are likely to get worse before they get better ...