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Districts across the state to lift mandates? >> we know how this virus is transmitted and we though things we can do and masks are not the only things we need to deal with. as you said, vaccination for kids are available, adults vaccinated, and highly vaccinated community, as the cases are decreasing right now with omicron, in a couple of weeks, maybe removing masks is the right thing to allow us the opportunity to peel off one of the restrictions that has been so controversial and things we can...

To your point, what is taking so long? knowing about transmission among kids, knowing that kids 5 and older can be vaccinated, what is the possible defense for closing a school system entirely? a lot of schools, one kid gets sick, he comes out and school goes on, but why would you close entire schools as some districts still are doing? >> im glad you asked this question. schools are near and dear to my heart as a parent of two children who were not able to be in school in 2020 because of the pan...

Of thing, to help keep us safe? >> whats really the case is that we have remarkably effective vaccines and thats our first line of defense. the next important thing is masking and better matz ks are better. better than cloth. as we move forward, we may need to change how we think about it. if you look at places like singapore, taiwan, hong kong, when people feel sick if they have to go out, they wear a mask. if its flu season, they wear a mask. if they have transplant or immun immunosuppressed, ...

Them being propelled forward, right? that shows that that n95 made the difference. >> yeah, it does make a difference. >> randi joins us now. with all that said, do the professors recommend these plexiglass screens? >> well, anderson, they think they have potential, but they certainly think more testing needs to be done because in that lab they work in, its a very controlled environment. nobody moves during those tests. but in the real world, people would be moving around in a workplace. they wo...

That kid saying were going in and were going to do iou everything oily threatening why they planning to do that ? they dont wear a maga hat or you can need to him. oh, yes you can. but you said because its hardes youre absolutely right. and the united states of america and what we american rescue plany guaranteed was the rescue plan were talking about. exactly. and what the american rescue plan guaranteed is that some of our schools did not have ame adequate back and adequate ventilation that we...

>> sure. i think there are a lot of passionate feelings on both sides of this, that there are a number of folks who would like to see it dropped immediately. many whom didnt believe it should ever been in place in the first place. and there are those very concerned. i appreciate both sides. i think as school leaders we dont have the capacity to identify metrics. so, we work with local half officials absent state or federal guidance to create these metrics and try and balance both sides of the eq...

Increasing ventilation -- >> you had this great piece, opinion piece at cnn.com this week. everybody should read it. its called why im cautionly optimistic. you write -- we have now built up a wall of immunity. its optimistic. >> i do worry that weve gotten hardened to these numbers that are almost unspeakable. 1,000, 2,000, 2500 a day. thats stunning. as an infectious disease

>> one way masking is effective in protecting you and protecting people around you. the risks now are lower than they were. they may go up again in the future, hopefully not. but in the meantime theres still a lot of few step we have in place that can help protect you. first of all, hopefully youre vaccinated and youre boosted. if youre due for that, that is the single biggest thing you can do to make sure a case of covid doesnt turn into anything more serious. in addition to that things like go...

Less deadly in the future. another svb could arise tomorrow that is even more deadly than delta. the other side of that is our immunity. from vaccination and also from infections that so many have gotten. and that immune is strong and it is protecting against severe disease. we have multiple layers of protection. the first and most important are our immune defenses for basically building a wall of immunity and that wall is strong, especially against severe illness and death. we still have lots o...

What are our governors doing to make sure that every resident has what they need to stay safe? and what that looks like are free n 95 rapid tests, which have started but still not adequate and what other policies are we going to put in place in businesses. for example, focusing on clean air. we need make sure that public spaces, businesses and schools are safe and i would say ventilation and air filtration are an area we should focus right now as opposed to lifting mask mandates. >> and what abo...