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Medical doctors and public health authorities. in our local community. we were advised to start school with all the mitigation factors that we could employ. masking was one of them. so, we are following the advice of the local officials who are in touch with the conditions of the spread of covid-19 in our community. that is a decision that we went with the last week. to start school with the mask mandate. and to reevaluate it based on current conditions from august 17th. we thought it was the best decision based on medical information, local medical information. >> what about the threats that ...

Her ninth year teaching sixth grade science in alachua county where students are heading back to class today. >> i think it's important to model safety with the kids and make sure that they feel safe with me. then i have a two-year-old daughter at school who is starting school this year, and so i need to be able to protect her and her classmates. >> reporter: her school board will reevaluate its decision to require masks on august 17th. >> it does make you pause, but our goal is the health and safety of our students and our staff. so we think we're within the guidelines of the law. >> reporter...

Which has repeatedly putting the losing republican candidate in office and a divided senate in which one half of the membership represents 41 million fewer citizens than the other, we are a nation in which a vir lint minority has an out-sized voice and the majority underrepresented and forced into a bystander role suffers mightily in silence. we are going to be dealing with the consequences of the trump administration, the pandemic, and particularly the insurrection of january 6th, for a very, very long time, just as we are going to be confronting the fact that 74 million people wanted four mo...

We like where we're going. we hope it's successful. >> i'm glad that you're seeing progress. i don't know if it's fast enough. the clark county vaccination rate right now, which is where las vegas is, is just 41%. i think the positivity rated the is 17%. so i hear what you're saying. you're trying to, i guess, you know, use inducements rather than requirements. but why not at this point as we see the numbers going in the wrong direction just require your workers to be vaccinated? >> i think it is working. we're doing hundreds of employees. i think with an added impetus behind this week and the...