year. i want to bring in cal perry who are is at that school district and spoke to one mom who is feeling the consequences of those policies. so cal, take us inside that conversation. >> reporter: yeah, it was a hard conversation to have. this is who is caught in the middle. you have the families of those folk who is are dying. in this county, 17 folks since the beginning of the year should say 12 of them did cme back to school. so 5 folks never came back. 12 died. anthony dorsey was a 24-year-old, still is a local hero. went off to play college athletics and came home to be a biology teacher. he got sick in early september and died on september 14th. i talked to his mother. one of the things she wanted to talk about is the fact that he wasn't vaccinated. take a listen. >> what was important to me was that people understood he was a teacher and he was exposed to this virus probably at school. and i wanted people to be safe.