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Purifying units available to schools and colleges, isnt it? yes purifying units available to schools and colleges, isnt it?— and colleges, isnt it? yes but there is 27,000 _ and colleges, isnt it? yes but there is 27,000 schools - and colleges, isnt it? yes but there is 27,000 schools and l and colleges, isnt it? yes but i there is 27,000 schools and its and colleges, isnt it? yes but. there is 27,000 schools and its a bit late and air purifiers are not the whole answer. weve been calling on t...

And the city of chicago in the past few weeks. particularly the teachers want more access to testing. they want to see students vaccinated at a higher rate. its currently a little more than a third of students are vaccinated, but bottom line, they dont feel safe going back into the classrooms. take a listen to one school counselor. >> dont keep using us as sacrificial lambs, saying that its safe to be in schools. its not. its not. >> reporter: now, the school district has maintained it is safe a...

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Theres this balance of whats safe, what can i do? hopefully schools are doing the right things by opening windows, having ventilation going on. hopefully we see that expansion of vaccines to that younger age group coming soon to help to protect them more. thats not goings to help during this current surge but hopefully down the line. for older kids, what we talked about, getting vaccinated, ventilation in schools. all schools should be mandating masks when were indoors. those are ways to help pr...

How to keep schools open and we do it by distancing kids as best as possible, keeping masks on at school. increasing the amount of ventilation in schools. and most importantly now, testing. frequent testing. if a kid in the class comes down with covid, everybody else tests. if they test negative, they stay in class. if they test positive, they go home and they isolate. thats how we keep kids back in school. but we need to flood our schools with frequent testing. and the other piece of this is fo...

And a half thousand. meanhile england confirmed 98,515 cases in the past day. the health secretary said 90% of covid cases in england are now thought to be the omicron variant and he urged people to be cautious with their new years eve celebrations, saying the government wont hesitate to act in the future if necessary. heres our correspondent simonjones. after the christmas festivities, tough decisions. the government has been poring over the latest covid data to see if it thinks new measures ar...

Some might have had to switch to online learning at very short notice so for me i know a lot of teaching unions have been saying the same thing. why are we having inspectors going into schools to check the quality of education when quite frankly right as we have just been hearing pupils and staff getting tested right now to make sure they can get back to school are surely got to be the priority. lets leave some things for later this month. what about ventilation? 7000 ventilation units funded by...

Measures. they wanted to go online. but now with no remote learning, hundreds of thousands of children are caught in the middle just hours after president biden said this. >> we provided the states with 130 billion, with a billion, billion dollars to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. funding for ventilation, ventilation systems in the schools, social distancing in classrooms, even larger classrooms, on buses. everything from bus drivers to buses. so i encourage the states and...

Are closed. we joked the biggest waste of taxpayers dollars would come from the seat covers or ancillary service. what about the 500 billion, chicago schools, increased ventilation, hundreds of thousands of masks. 90% of teachers and staff vaccinated and yet they still want more. what do they want no make no mistake, it is not about the children as science and data show the safest place has been in school. there is negligible transmission in schools as compared to the community and in-home trans...

Teachers and thats why we need to keep schools open. >> doctor, how do you see it? >> yeah, i dont have small kids so -- and i have great sympathy for parents dealing with this now. it is an incredibly tricky situation. i guess, the question i -- i virtually always agree but on this one, absolutely schools could put themselves into a position to keep everybody safe. the question is as he mentions not all of them have. and if they havent, they are probably not going to figure out how to do it in ...