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In one of the ohios largest school districts will not be in school because of covid-19. despite advice from the local childrens hospital which says, quote going virtual in a school setting would not necessarily mitigate the spread i think those all those individuals would just simply spread it somewhere else because its so infectious ohio g.o.p. senate candidate and senate resident ways weighs in. no school until 294th not because of a union situation. how do you solve this? >> the first thing y...

Wear that high grade mask. >> the head of one of the largest school systems says he doesnt see an end to mask requirement in the classroom anytime soon. parents in some florida and virginia districts are fighting to keep mask mandates in place despite blocks by gop governors. are you worried that masking may continue for longer than it has to? is that an issue? >> one of my really big worries is about equity issues and learning losses in kids, and so many of us have been talking for almost two y...

The biggest issue is remote testing, remote learning which we categorically reject. we have set up and i think responded to many of their issues regarding testing. i think we can get agreement there. we have put together a revised proposal for a school-by-school metric, which really mirrors what weve been doing, chuck, all along this year. we havent sat idly by and let covid rage through our schools. when theres been a necessity to shut down a classroom or school, to go to remote learning, weve ...

To keep mask mandates in place despite blocks by gop governors. are you worried that masking may continue for longer than it has to? is that an issue? >> one of my really big worries is about equity issues and learning losses in kids, and so many of us have been talking for almost two years now about the importance of getting kids back to school. there has been study after study showing when you have universal mask mandates in school, there are fewer kids and fewer teachers who catch covid in th...

How we potentially can get exposed. i dont think, again, the school setting is a safe setting. im not an advocate for mandatory mask mandates. if parents want their children to wear masks, the parents should have that right. if the parents dont want their children to wear masks, the parents should have that right. >> martha: if you were still in charge at the cdc, youd have a different than what were hearing now from the head of the cdc. is that true? >> i would -- i challenge my colleagues to p...

>> do breathing and then do a little meditation or visualization. your breath softens and connection with peers which theyve been missing so much during the pandemic and remote learning. want to cooks it to have 20 minutes within there to really focus on the social/emotional piece. >> fascinating piece by evan mcmorris. thanks for that. bring in sal cohn, founder and ceo of cohn academy. sal, thank you for your time. youre no stranger to online learning, obviously. but we also know that kids l...

The shift reflects a change in case numbers as well as a desire to move into the endemic phase, learning to live with the virus. a point phil murphy made when he announced his states rollback yesterday. >> were not going to manage covid to zero. we have to learn to live with covid as we move from a pandemic to an endemic phase of the virus. >> governor murphy joins me in a moment. the cdc and the academy of pediatrics still recommend masks. agencies say kids as young as 2 should be masked in a s...

Rochelle walensky said because theres high areas of transmission of omicron, we cant change our mask guidance. do you agree or disagree? >> no, martha, i dont agree with that. its not so much where it is in the larger community but what is it in the setting that youre in. with the debate about schools, schools have always been a very low transmission zone for covid. i think this is what many people are realizing, that the risk of transmission acquisition within the school setting is extremely lo...