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Now, if one student does not have a mask on and the rest of the kids have masks on, that substantially reduces their risks of being infected. what weve seen is a lot of unnecessary quarantining since schools have reopened and this is a great opportunity to use a rapid testing test to say where if a student is exposed to someone who has been infected, if they test negative, they can stay in class because that means theyre not infected or infectious. so again, if your child is masked, but exposed,...

Previous variants. so what youd like to do is to make sure you can get the children to get masks that are as best fitting as they can, but a requirement for a kn95 on the child isnt necessary and in fact, often thats much more uncomfortable than the masks youre showing on the screen right now, which actually might work against you if you have an uncomfortable mask that the children have trouble keeping on and keep messing with. so i think the masks you saw look like they would be adequate. >> ou...

While new evidence consistently shows that quarantining can reduce covid-19 infections and the risk of death from the virus, that is a tough sell for a number of school districts across the country. >> in north carolina, the union county public schools district now said that it is going to halt contact tracing and quarantining for students and staff exposed to covid-19 if theyre not showing symptoms or test negative. masks are also optional in the s sixth largest district. joining me now, the fe...

Comparison to 9/11 is the murder of george floyd because it was an event that we all watched, at the same time. uncut. raw. and we had the same view of what happened and as the trial went on, we had the same views of what happened. but that, to me, feels like more of a visceral comparison of something that was just, like, we all saw the same thing. we may interpret it differently but we cant lie to ourselves about what happened. so i dont know how to interpret where we are right now. it seems li...

>> now, i know you say that your district is not part of a lawsuit that was ruled on today by the appeals court. but its an important ruling, nevertheless. what impact do you think it will have on students across the state? >> so as far as our district, its not going to have an impact. we are continuing to do what we have done since the school year began. we are going to have the mask mandate to protect as many students as possible so we can provide face-to-face instruction. we know that its imp...

Seen the worst of humanity. as a lot of my friends have been arrested. some of them killed. nobody stands up for afghanistan to help them. please, i want to help my whole family there. she cries. there are concerns about the quarantining for covid. afghan refugees could face months living in hotels because of a lack of available accommodation. theyve gone into the quarantining and that was understandable, but not beyond that ten days there is the level of frustration building up in the families ...

Charities and politicians are calling on the government to provide more money to manage the resettlement of refugees from afghanistan in yorkshire and the humber. the government says extra money has been provided and that refugees are being redistributed equally across england. however figures analysed by bbc look north show in the last eight years, yorkshire and the humber has rehoused more refugees than any other region in england. david rhodes has more. the afghan refugee crisis began on the ...

Australia. basically if youre quarantining at home and are suppose to be at home you get a prompt from the app. take a photo of yourself and the location youre suppose to be in. if you dont do that in 15 minutes the police can show up at your door. this is the tip of the iceberg, brian. this is the same state government that rounded up people and put them into quarantined hotels not because theyre sick but visited a venue that a sick person went toplt a winery in south australia where they had e...

Thank you. we can speak now to simon calder, the travel journalist. effectively, we are looking at a simplification of the system. we are u . simplification of the system. we are u- to a simplification of the system. we are up to a point- _ simplification of the system. we are up to a point. and _ simplification of the system. we are up to a point. and the _ simplification of the system. we are up to a point. and the government i up to a point. and the government has got at the moment actually f...

Exposures sacred is not make sense. if you do so theres no way to avoid almost every kid or have this will be in quarantine, schools in europe decided to hold back on the quarantining part because it would be like saying i took the train in new york and i was around the million people if everyone was connected to somebody and doesnt make sense to shut down 1 million people just because of one exposure. todd: if you were advising the schools what would your advice be? >> the number one thing we c...