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Students who cant be vaccinated because theyre under aged because of these in districts across the south. whats happening is the schools are getting engulfed with the community. if theres widespread community transmission the school is going to be a place thats not immune from that. so what we have to do is teachers are embracing this idea to get as many students vaccinated as possible and take best practices when there is a pandemic outside the doors. that means you have certain mitigation meas...

Restrictions when theyre reasonably necessary to protect public health and preserve hospital capacity and so forth, which gets back to the mask mandate, for example. >> are you hopeful? >> im very hopeful. >> are you optimistic? >> the mask mandate has been in place for a week and a day. typically it takes about ten days before you start seeing results from that. yes, i am optimistic. weve done this before. not with the delta variant, which is much more transmissible and potentially more virulen...

Please? >> our war is not on desantis, it is on the virus which were trying to kneecap and he doesnt seem to want to participate in the kneecap of the virus and hence our concern. >> with me in studio, julie pace of the associated press, and melanie zanona and britney shepard and carol mers of "the washington post." it is sad to me, that we have a national crisis and a red and blue bath to deal with it. we could put up a graphic on the screen. in democratic states, mask mandates in school and va...

To help keep them safe. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> brianna? >> the back and forth over masks in schools continues, my next guests have been working with north carolina schools consisting of more than 1 million students and staff members to study the spread of coronavirus and the efficacy of mitigation measures in schools. and what they found is overwhelming evidence that masks work there. they write "the new york times," quote, although vaccination is the best way to prevent covid-19, univer...

Desk. one on infrastructure and one on reconciliation. thank you. >> turning to the delta variant for a moment. i want to see do you think the administration has enough mitigation measures in place early enough and should have heeded some of the lessons if other countries that had data as early as may and june about how the variant spread? >> we knew how the variant spread and we know the vaccines prevent the spread. a lot of countries didnt have the vaccines we were able to put together and mak...

Vaccinated or masked or not? >> there are a lot of parents very worried about their kids going back to school. i heard from a health official in maryland who said parents were picketing because they wanted their kids to be safer and they wanted to see appropriate, reasonable mitigation measures put in place so their kids could go to school safely. i dont think its too much to ask. school boards and superintendents to follow the guidelines of pediatricians in the united states about what keeps ki...

Trump had been all over the map and not paying attention and disorganized and now we see an administration that the right hand doesnt seem to know what the left hand is doing. the president is begging people, pleading, waging rhetorical fights with governors. where is the coordinated response? thats what you see people responding to when you see those numbers going down, this feeling like not only did we have this surge of optimism that now appears unwarranted, but just wanting to know that some...

Transmission rate, especially when you look at the actual verified cases, versus people just using pure speculation. can you talk us through... crosstalk. yeah, go ahead. can you talk us through what is going ahead this year and the measures you have put in place to keep this event as safe as possible? sure, this year so far what we have started to see is our numbers are easily meeting what they were for our largest rally which was in 2015, that was the 75th anniversary, at that we had 750,000 p...

Of a00- 500,000 metropolitan area in america, of a00— 500,000 people, we were actually the second lowest amount of transmission. so actually all things considered it was a very, very low transmission rate, especially when you look at the actual verified cases, versus people just using pure speculation. can you talk us through... (crosstalk). can you talk us through what is going ahead this year and the measures you have put in place to keep this event as safe as possible?— to keep this event...

Bennett earlier this is groundhog day all over again. tell us about the flood of patients who are seeing now, and how quickly the situation has worsened. >> pleasure for having me here, its great to have a platform to speak on behalf of floridians and health care professionals down here. this is like we are having ptsd. the initial surge that we went through was very disturbing and stressful. we thought this was behind us. we have the vaccination campaign. we thought the light was at the end of ...