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School boards are more worried about staffing and campus safety than COVID as the new school year approaches.

For kids. >> correct. >> wow. >> what about if there's not masking in a school environment, still you argue it better to keep the schools, the schools are still safer. >> yeah, i think it's a little more of a closer call there because you're going to have more transmission. we have an ongoing study of 60 school districts, 1.3 million children nationally involved in that study, and masking reduces transmission by about 80%. so you're going to have more cases and more transmission in these unmasked districts but there, you're making the argument that we should punish children for the failure of ...

Children safe at school at this point during the pandemic? >> i would say bravo. you are doing the best possible thing for children's learning, but also as you said, for their social and emotional health. kids need school like fish need water. there's really abundant evidence run out of places like danny benjamin's work -- a pediatrician out of duke -- has shown repeatedly schools are safer for kids than kids being in the general community where the risks of transmission of covid are enormous. so, you know, kids need to be in school for their overall health and well being. >> dr. mcbride, what...

We have the resources. we have the viens. we need to do everything in our power to keep the classrooms open for students, where they learn best, where they get support from teachers after experiencing the trauma of the pandemic. >> secretary cardona, thanks very much for your time. i want to drill down more with this with someone who was on the forefront of research into covid and schools. distinguished professor of pediatrics at duke university, dr. benjamin thanks for your time. what do you make of what the secretary of education was just telling us a few moments ago? do you think the fede...