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Made when necessary and the recent changes to self isolation rules will help alleviate the pressure, but where such decisions do prove necessary, i hope members and the wider public will understand that they are driven by the needs of those who depend on social care services. my second point is about ventilation in schools and in early years settings, and before christmas we published revised guidance for the settings which included updated material on a ventilation which amongst other things ma...

Ill tell you, my school district, i did not have a window in my classroom. when you say ventilation and open up the room and allow a breeze, what breeze? when people say its okay for our children to go back to school, is your child this that private school? is it one of those black children where if youre a ninth grader in america, and youre black, one in four have risk of having more than 40 students in this classroom. theres nowhere for them to spread out. 18% of all public school systems do n...

>> sandra: thursday. >> john: chicago public schools shut down for a second straight day as teachers stay home, like groundhog day, kids are left further behind. im john roberts. sandra, good to spend thursday with you. >> sandra: friday eve you usually call it. billions to keep necessary resources to keep the schools open, improved ventilation and other safety measures. that does not seem to be stopping some school leaders from shutting their doors. >> john: hi, gillian. >> gillian: public scho...

Community and schools have to close for a bit while there are inadequate numbers of teacher and staff. having as the primary objective, doing everything possible to keep kids in school, is the right approach. if i had younger kids, and my school was doing the right things, so they were addressing ventilation and distancing, they were requiring vaccination, requiring mask wearing, i would feel comfortable sending my kids to school. and by comfort, it doesnt mean im sending them to a setting where...

To have. we need to communicate to the public, you know, when we get much higher than that, restrictions have to be in place. when were lower than that because of vaccinations, because of better indoor ventilation, we can actually ease up. >> in other words, talk about this in advance, so youre not panicking and reacting when there is a wave or something like this. more meat on the bones here, you obviously -- youre all critical of the testing situation in the united states, half a billion tests...

>> and, of course, new york city has those vaccine mandates as well. athena jones, thank you. appreciate it. lets bring in chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. you just heard the new york city mayor tell parents that kids need to be in school. you see the nfl changing its policy so that asymptomatic players can return to the field sooner after testing positive for covid. there does seem to be a paradigm shift on how society is handling the pandemic. along with acknowledging that maski...

Readily available, but it does eliminate most of the risk. in addition, you have funding in the c.a.r.e.s. act, the american rescue plan, the infrastructure bill. hundreds of billions of dollars for k-12 schools to improve their indoor ventilation and air filtration, for whatever reason, schools have not spent the funds in that way. and that is an area where i think we really do need to hold schools accountable. >> dr. blackstock, i have about 30 seconds left but i want to give you the final wor...

Need to look at in addition to keeping schools open is the hospital threshold. thats the biggest issue that we really are dealing with that many people are not aware of. you see, we need to understand at what point are our hospitals overloaded. at what point does fema need to be called. do the medical military strike teams need to be called to come and help. when do the national guard teams come in. we have to establish that threshold because as you see right now, hospitals are overloaded and jo...

Closures, things of that nature in. >> i think we have to have a different standard for kiddos under five. if the adults are doing triple vaccines, masks, improvements to ventilation and resources exist from the american rescue plan. if those things are taken into account, we need to think how we approach a similar threat to the under five group in the rsc, how we use that as a paradigm to think about returning kids back to that in-person environment that shea have been exposed to covid-19, no, ...

Mika, in his talk in the afternoon said that the federal government, through a covid relief act earlier this year, had spent over $1 billion in making schools safer. giing local school districts money to retrofit some of the schools with ventilation and do the things necessary to keep kids in school. >> some states, he said, chose to do different things with the money. and we need to still push everybody to, willie geist, try and focus on creating an environment that is safe for children and not...