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Vaccinating all eligible children reduce or alleviate the need for school closures? doctor: thanks for having me back. first and foremost theres no reason for school closures at this point. remote schooling has been a disaster for americas kids, two years after the pandemic this is even on the table. to your direct question, it would help a lot. it would help a lot for two reasons, and even omicron breakthroughs its better to be vaccinated and second, some kids really do get sick and you would m...

Scenario 13 here. >> yes >> reporter: a mixture of in-person and remote learning, an ipad for every student, and staff focused on emotional support for students, all measures helping to keep the district school doors open even amid the current omicron wave the superintendent says theyre taking a long view of educating in a pandemic. >> weve got to figure out how we respond to problems we dont even know about yet. >> reporter: under federal relief bills congress allocated $190 billion for schools...

People and make those masks available. it will save lives and save money. but you know, anderson, it is not the only thing that we have got to do. you know, weve got to continue to work on making sure that we have as many people vaccinated as possible. weve got to make sure that our schools are safe with the kind of ventilation systems that can keep xlclassrooms healthy. we need to make sure that the new therapies that are out there, so that when people come down with covid, they can get the tre...

Recovery act, through the act that -- the first act we passed to be able to make sure schools were able to be safe. so we have new ventilation systems available for them. we have the way they handle a scrub down laboratories and i mean, the laboratories kid goes to, to go to the bathroom. cafeterias, buses, et cetera. all that money is there. theres billions of dollars made available thats there. not every school district has used it as well as it should be used. but its there. so in addition to...

N95, fine then dont. but we should at least educate people and make those masks available. it will save lives and save money. but, you know, anderson, it is not the only thing that we have got to do. we have got to continue to work on making sure that we have as many people vaccinated as possible. we have got to make sure that our schools are safe with the kind of ventilation systems that can keep classrooms healthy. we need to make sure that the new therapies that are out there so that when peo...

New pfizer pills, more than any other country in the world. the bottom line on covid-19, were in a better place that we have been and have been thus far, clearly better than a year acc. were not going back to lock downs and closing schools. schools should stay open. because the american rescue plan, we provided the states $130 billion to keep our students and educators safe and schools open. funding for ventilation systems in schools, social distancing, hygiene for classrooms and school buses. i...

Folks, that mayors view of problem solving is exactly what we brought to the american rescue plan. its designed to you would be able to have the resources and the flexibility to take both the short term and long term challenges created by this pandemic. ten months ago, that law is still carrying the nation forward. on vaccines, on boosters, on keeping schools open. its still making a difference for communities across the country. and i might add, a lot of money in that to keep those schools open...

That year. respond to what angie -- the point that angie is making here. >> i dont think theres an issue. i know teachers, and i know teachers want to be in school. but they want to be in school where its safe and healthy. they understand the social, emotional, and academic toll it took on students to stay home. but to bring us back to school was something that was not in the teachers control. the ventilation systems are old in many buildings, and, truthfully, it is going to take billions of dol...

Building with the fire marshalls and other building inspectors, were going to determine exactly what happened here and make modifications accordingly. >> do you have reason to believe that this building did not conform to fire code? >> no, i do not. i believe that based on the preliminary reports that it was up to the these buildings were built prior to the new fire codes put in place and once we have the report from the fire marshal, we will be able to make a thorough evaluation of what needs t...

Had the ability to provide the funding through the recovery act, through the act that -- the first act we passed to be able to make sure schools were able to be safe. so we have new ventilation systems available for them, we have the way that they handle -- they scrub down laboratories and -- i mean the lavatories kids use. cafeterias, buses. all of that money is there. theres billions made available. its available. not every school district has used it as well as it should be used. but its ther...