is down by 26% from a month ago. we should caution, these vaccination numbers come after a holiday weekend. officials tell cnn the president's gonna lay out a six-point plan with obvious political, economic, and public health repercussions and we will talk about that more tonight. but right now, we want to focus on what officials say will be one element of that plan, which is safeguarding kids in schools. the spike in cases comes not only as america's schools re-open but as new data from the american academy of pediatric says one in four of these new cases is in a child. not only that, the organization says there's been a 250% increase in infections of children from five weeks ago. vaccines are, as you know, unavailable for those under 12. but one thing that appears to unite a large swath of democrats, republicans, and parents at this moment is that kids should be in school. which leaves masks as one of the next best lines of protection. but as we have seen most notably in florida, mask mandates have become deeply polarizing. most notably, governor ron