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Argue about that all day. i mean, is the impact on mental health, is the impact on development of children, the impact on schools, is that balanced against trying to be covid pristine and protect against infection? i don't have the right answer to that and i don't pretend to have the right answer. i asked anne rimoin — professor of epidemiology in the fielding school of public health at the university of california — how she interpreted what dr fauci said. i think we have to focus on what he actually said and what he said was, we need to be inching back towards normalcy and that is really ...

Announcer: building a better bay area -- moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> as of tomorrow, we will movel from a mask requirement to a mask recommendation. >> santa clara county joining the rest of the bay area and going mask free, but >> with a warning >>. as much as we wish it were not true, we are still in the middle of a global pandemic. and we still do have community transmission. >> in san francisco, the debate rages on about masks in schools. >> we to take off the mask. dan: a join. >>-19 case rates in california continued to decline. the test positivity rate is d...

Divider, and i feel very safe, and -- but with our guests, it's pretty close, especially in the shampoo bowl, we're face-to-face, we're shampooing, and we are with our guests sometimes two hours, two and a half hours, so i would like to have some cover. >> reporter: now, all that said, here's where the state is going with the strategy that governor newsom has dubbed s.m.a.r.t.e.r. because everyone has to have an acronym when you're in politics. it stands for shots, masks, awareness, making people aware that the disease is still there, even if case rates are lower, readiness, they want to be ab...

Moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> starting tomorrow, public indoor masking for on vaccinated and vaccinated his knowledge required. strongly recommended. >> a big change to california's mask mandate, for happens in two weeks. >> march 12, schools and childcare centers can move from required masking to strongly recommended. >> but not all students will be a ladder able to go mask free. they were joining us i'm larry. kristen: case rates. larry: test positively is deputy 3%. -- down 53%.

>> it can very easily do so. if you do things easier than people think. the benchmark, the rates got dropped because the feds thought oh my gosh, we've had to lock down the economy there is a pandemic. we had to make it easy jabbar's people seemed like the economy got by cars and houses that's why interest rates dropped. never going up because inflation needs to be curtailed. you see covid spreading in china that's two things very unhappy for hospitalizations in china. that's going to disrupt supply chain again which is going to cause inflation just sort of work its way through the pipeline. y...