sick. i don t want to see them get hospitalized. and i certainly don t want to see them die, but that s what s happening when you don t vaccinate to the full extent possible. the president outlined an aggressive new testing plan, but just yesterday your colleague dr. francis collins, director of the nih said there s still problems distributing tests. how can that be? no, what the president was saying is he s using the defense production act to get literally millions and millions of tests many of them free for individuals. so the distribution will come. right now we just need those tests, and we are going to be accelerating the testing program as the president outlined in one of his six points. but is there enough testing currently? i mean you re talking about things people can buy or get at cost or get for free to test themselves i assume. yeah. i mean what is the tracking on, you know, do we know in
home to screen themselves before they went to work because the levels of disease in so many places was so low. now we re playing catch up. i think that there was also an underestimation back in the late spring, early summer, as to where we were in the pandemic. we are no where near the end of this pandemic. we have no idea what the next variance will look like and there s a recognition of that now, but i think that there was a period where there was an early declaration of independence from the virus that just wasn t, you know, has not been the case. i hear you. but the testing thing has been one of those. there has always been a reason why that has been delayed. let me move over to the legal side of this argument, professor wiley. it does seem as if and i m curious of your analysis on this. is the fact that the osha rule is likely to say a vaccine mandate or a rigorous testing program that that s what is going to make it legally pretty
teachers and students. similar numbers for vaccine mandates for teachers and 55% support vaccine mandates for eligible students. well, today one of the largest school districts in the country, los angeles county, took a bold step in the direction of the majority and president biden s priorities with the school board voting to mandate vaccinations for all students age 12 and over. kelly gomez is president of the l.a. school board of education. she voted to enact that vaccine mandate and she joins me now. great to have you on the program. first i guess talk me through the process that led the school board to this vote this afternoon. chris, thank you for having me. well, throughout the pandemic our school district has really been at the forefront of covid safety. since we opened our campuses last spring through our weekly testing program, a vaccine mandate for all of our employees and more. so this step is really a continuation of that commitment to protecting our students, families an
mandates in school for teachers and students. similar numbers were mandates for eligible students. today, one of the largest school districts in the country, los angeles, county took a bold stop in the direction of the majority. and president biden s priorities where the school board voting to mandate vaccinations for all, students aged 12 and over. this woman is the president of the she just voted to enact that vaccine mandate. and she joins me now. it s great to have you on the program. first, talk me through the process, that led the school board to this vote, this afternoon. thank you for having me chris. throughout the pandemic our school district has been at the forefront of covid safety, since we opened our campuses last. spring through our weekly testing program. vaccine mandate for all of our employees. and more. this step is really a continuation of that. commitment to protecting our
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