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Is it a resource issue? is it literally a manufacturing hold up that we can't get these more tests available in the places we need it? >> you know, i think that what i saw happening was back in june, back in early july when the numbers were going down, down, down. when we were seeing 10,000 cases a day. incredibly low numbers. the push to get programs of perspective testing in schools went away. the cdc guidance around schools called on having testing programs when you were seeing significant or high levels of transmission. but we were on a trajectory where that wasn't happening and then delta...

Emergency use for the vaccine for kids under 12 has been so long delayed? >> well, you know, chuck, i think it comes down to the importance of having really good information. the younger you are, thankfully, the less likely you are to have severe disease, to be hospitalized and to die. and if you want the fda to approve the authorization of these vaccines for kids, if you want the advisory committee and the cdc to recommend them, you're really going to have to show that they're incredibly safe and that they're effective. it's much harder doing studies in really young kids. you can have a child...

Their communities. this is, this is we're playing for real here. this isn't a game. >> there are, of course, many questions facing the white house on the implementation and enforcement of these new rules. many of which have yet to actually be formally written. there are, of course, many political questions facing the president and his party because we've said it so many times but it bears repeating. how covid goes so go the biden presidency. it is that simple. acting cdc director dr. richard besser and professor lindsay riley a professor at american university. monica, let me start with you an...

Are defying the governor's order. including broward county, which is the second-largest school district in the state. and also, just today, leon county, in tallahassee, the superintendent there had -- he -- he has now issued a mask mandate. but earlier, he had sent a letter to the governor asking for autonomy and flexibility. and that whole exchange went sideways because he ended up issuing that mask mandate, today, in response to the governor's threat to withhold his salary. that superintendent in leon county said you can't put a price tag on someone's life, including my salary. that's accord...

Down. not as many people on ventilators as there were before. so, basicallying nothing to look at here. don't worry about it, kids, go back to school. you don't need a mask mandate, anderson. >> randi, appreciate it. thanks let's get perspective now from dr. richard besser. peetdia trigz and former acting cdc director. also, cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. so, sanjay, you hear the governor seeking to penalize educators trying to get masks in schools. saying a responsible business wouldn't put 30 unvaccinated people in a confined space right now without masks, and keep them t...