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Vaccinated. think about who is sitting beside you. we know global vaccination has lagged. 65% of the globe is vaccinated but of the poorer countries, only 15% of people living in those poorer countries has received one dose of the covid-19 vaccine. what does that mean when we're bringing about and transmitting covid around this globe that it only means that we're going to develop another variant that we will see. we can anticipate that. it's not some conspiracy theory. viruses mutate overtime. until we get this lifted and to not have systems in place to address the community surge if they do h...

Adequate response to the first doses, or the single dose in the j&j, are sometimes across in the cross hairs of a community surge. but the takeaway is get the shot and have the extra layer of protection. >> what would you say to the parents of young children who are not eligible? i'm asking for myself to be clear. i have a child in school required to wear a mask. everyone is required to wear a mask. i have moments where i'm very concerned that is not adequate protection. of course, her classmates are not vaccinated because they can't be. >> i'm in the same boat. one of my kids is vaccinated. i...

Study is fascinating. tell us what you found in north carolina and then looking at other states about the effectiveness of masks in schools. >> absolutely. thank you so much. so we studied, as you mentioned, over 1 million students and staff here in north carolina. more than 7,000 people came into the buildings with covid-19. we also looked at those who were quarantined, more than 40,000 students and staff required quarantine because of close contact with those 7,000 students and staff. but we only identified about 363 secondary infections. that means of those who were quarantined, very few, l...