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Fully vaccinated and i have an 11 who is not old enough to get vaccinated. lets make sure that we are making the decisions and we have the courage to make the decisions that protect them. but not just protect them, keep them in schools. so my kids school system did universal masking and theyve done well. sure they have some quarantines. we have had one district that went back for three days before i put the mandate in and they have 700 people in quarantine after three days. one works and keeps k...

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And then, in north carolina and in missouri, weve had a couple of school districts open up with going with a voluntary-masking policy. and those school districts have gone four or five days. and through a combination, partly the drama around quarantines, and partly because of infections that are occurring in schools, theyre going back to a masking policy. with the delta variant, its harder to know because we have so limited experience. but i would say, well over 10%. >> you also looked at the ri...

Infected in a week without masking. and then in north carolina and in missouri we had a couple of school districts open up going with a voluntary masking policy. and those school districts had gone four or five days and through a combination partly the drama around quarantines and partly because of infections that are occurring in schools, theyre going back to a masking policy. with the delta variant its harder to know because we have so limited experience, but i would say well over 10%. >> you ...

Where a child coming in with covid had a less than 1% chance of giving it to their peers or to a teacher. the north carolina developed bipartisan legislation to the credit of our governor and legislators that required schools to report their data to us at the abc science collaborative and put all children in the state eligible to be in school full time. over a million children and adults reported data to us every week through their schools by school infections from the community and school acqui...

Optional had 700 quarantines and nearly 100 positives and it simply doesnt work. sometimes you have to have the courage to do the right thing and thats what well continue to do in kentucky. >> your states republican attorney general is challenging your requirement of the mask and when do you expect the courts to rule and how will that affect your powers? >> theres a current supreme court case that is on the books that we believe support us. our kentucky attorney general, i think, would rather pl...

Placed language including careful and deliberate in terms of the pathway ahead and also confidence, clarity, these are the sorts of things this that they want to be feeling. and it will be done in tiers, in stages. those coming from low risk countries will not have to go through mandatory quarantine if they have been vaccinated but then there will be a scaled system up to high risk countries if they are coming from there, they will still need to do quarantines. but listen to what gentarden ha sa...

Hhs, pediatric hospitalizations are more than four times higher than they were a month ago. so, what do parents need to know about this delta variant, and how it is impacting kids? we keep hearing more kids are ending up in the hospital, its more transmissible. but what does the science show in terms of how harmful it can be? >> its clearly more transmissible. there were three studies reported by the cdc showing that it appears to be more likely to cause severe disease. this virus is good at fin...

Healthy 1-year-old woman, perfectly healthy 25-year-old. >> our average age is at is 15-year-old mark and we see patients infected with serious respiratory problems as young as in their 30s. >> florida leads the nation in children hospitalized with covid, which is why school districts decided this week to follow cdc guidelines and require students to mask up. >> we know that if we have masked children in our classrooms, were going to have fewer quarantines. that mean our children will have direc...

Classrooms and all of them are masked, we are going to have fewer quarantines and when we have fewer quarantines, that means our children are going to have direct instruction, more often. >> so that sounds reasonable enough, which bring us us to the governor, ron desantis. he is still standing by his executive order barring public schools from imposing any mask mandates and threatening their funding, if they do. when he signed it last friday, the state recorded just under 9,700 new cases. today,...