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As the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, government officials at all levels are reevaluating their health and safety protocols and adjusting workplace guidance...

Health care institutions need to do is have policies in place that state we do not accept this type of behavior. and that it interferes with the medical care and medical treatment and their priority really is to protect their workers or wells workers will leave from burnout and just from the trauma of these or else workers will leave from burnout and just the trauma of these experiences. >> you have california where the governor there, governor newsom of california announcing that school childre...

We have huge discrepancies in terms of who is receiving vaccines and we know not enough black floridians are getting vaccinated so we have a black physician as surgeon again real giving out misinformation, discouraging vaccinations and so -- which is even more dangerous and incredibly more harmful to our community and the fact is that he believes in this idea that we should just abandon all mitigation measures and let the virus spread and when that happens, who is the most affected? the most vul...

Cases among all americans. look at this weekend. football stadiums packed, yes, schools are back with unvaccinated kids. what do you think we are in for the next few weeks? >> i do think that the next few weeks are going to see as we are seeing, shaq is going to cover in idaho, we have increase in cases in low vaccinated areas, but stephanie, hate to say it, we are burning through with the virus, even in those areas. youre going to have many adults either by vaccine or infection or both achievin...

We need a full response here. its not just a vaccinate add approach. weve got to get testing and contact tracing going. it does look like the approach in the last eight months has been its vaccines or bust. now theres a new effort to enhance testing. where was this the first eight or nine months? it does feel as though everything was focused on the vaccine. and i get it, its the simplest way out, but weve got a mask divide in the country has gotten worse. >> youre right there has to be a multipr...

Other superintendent and school boards out there who are not doing this? >> it is appropriate and its necessary. as weve said, weve shown in los angeles that all of the mitigation measures, the filtration and the masking and the testing and the information system and vaccinations are critical. and as one could see in los angeles, throughout this pandemic, were keeping kids in school in the safest way possible. and it is the responsibility of every school board, every school administrator across ...

Math issue at this point because as youre increasing the number of children who are infected, even if the ratio stays the same, the absolute number will go up. right now about 100,000 people in the hospital, 2% of them are children. as more and more are infected, even if a likelihood of your child getting sick, severely ill enough to go to the hospital is low, the statistics start to catch up with people. let me show you a graphic that came out of this free print from north carolina state univer...

Distancing, and then when it comes to factor number two, like you see on the map here, there are still high levels of community transmission, and nearly all counties across the country. like you see here, nearly every county is in red, and thats why a different infectious disease experts i have talked to and pediatricians ive talked to say theres still the risk of potential outbreaks this week, compared with last week. so theyre really calling on schools to enforce mitigation measures and theyre...

6-year-old returning to school next monday. very important. any children that are eligible to be vaccinated, anyone over 12 should be vaccinated, really want to encourage parents to vaccinate their children. any adults in those households should also be vaccinated. and then in schools, everyone should be masked up. students, teachers, as well as staff. the cdc is saying that every school should have a mask mandate, and that is at a minimum. we also know that there are other strategies within sch...

Analyst had cultured. ladies first, lets start with you. was that purely a political move? >> i think it was. joe biden came in and they elected him because they wanted him to give confidence in the economy. they wanted him to return to normalcy, control over the pandemic of one of the top reasons why he was elected and to be frank, even though we werent in the middle of shutdowns anymore, he extended the unemployment benefits for that reason, to give people a sense that he was doing something f...