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Duke university, said even though it is early in the year, there is enough data to strongly suggest what works. >> if a school district does not have a mandatory masking policy, and is not quarentining thousands of people by the second week of school, then that school district is very likely being irresponsible as it relates to quarantine and exposure of people at school. >> reporter: benjamin likes vaccine mandates for those in illinois, new jersey, and oregon and washington. some districts like fairfax, virginia, and new york city, have required many student athletes to be vaccinated. benjam...

Kids are safe relative to the other schools with those options. >> reporter: school started august 5th in jacks kupts. there are around 6,000 students and 6.4% of them have reported a covid infection, a number he said is starting to trend down, slightly. the medical director of the los angeles unified school district is running a program with a completely different approach from mississippi. >> you have a robust and one of the largest testing programs in the nation. where we're testing all students and staff regardless of vaccination status every week. >> reporter: all adults inside of los ang...

And staff tested were positive for covid-19. dr. daniel benjamin, a pediatrician studying the pandemic school at duke university says even though it's early in the year, there's enough data to strongly suggest what works. >> if a school district does not have a mandatory masking policy and is not quarantining thousands of people by the second week of school, then that school district is very likely being irresponsible as it relates to quarantine and exposure of people at school. >> reporter: benjamin likes vaccine mandates for adults in education, like those in illinois, new jersey, oregon, an...

And then more recently, pamela, in june researchers in north carolina published a report looking at schools there that found masks reduce transmission of covid-19 even when people were not distancing. whether people were six feet apart, three feet apart, or zero feet apart, masks still worked in reducing transmission. and that's not all that was found in that report, pamela. here's one of the researchers, dr. daniel benjamin. >> it started in the fall, then we replicated the study during the winter surge. through that time we showed that masking was preventing transmission of covid in schools....

Во многих странах дети вскоре пойдут в школу — после долгого вынужденного перерыва. Учебный процесс все еще не будет прежним — коронавирус не отступил и требует соблюдения мер безопасности, однако очное обучение объявлено приоритетом. И за полтора года пандемии ученые узнали о Covid-19 очень многое — и эти знания помогают возв�...