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Is it, still -- do you -- do you -- in your opinion, effective for a child for their own self-protection to be masked if the other kids in the class are not? >> no, it's not sufficient. what parents want to do, in that situation, it helps a little bit, probably, to put the mask on one's own child. the big things to push for is to make sure that the schools are being ethical, as it relates to quarantine policy. transparent, in their communication around who's exposed. communicating to parents, if their children are exposed. and communicating, publicly, the number of infections in the children t...

“It is kind of like rearranging the furniture when the house is on fire. None of us feel quite ready to tackle this beast again but here we go whether we’re ready or not.”

Say. >> what's running through your head after you drop your kids off at school? >> i'm excited for them because i'm happy that they get to be around their peers and experience, you know, all the stuff it a they should in school, but i am also anxious and a little nervous that i'm going to get that phone call or they are going to wake up and be sick so it's -- it's scary. >> reporter: garrett, at the same time as you have parents like nana here, you also have parents who would be very upset with a mask mandate. this is a region where the virus has become very politicized. there's been a lot of...

You're working. >> mm-hmm. >> what are they -- when they can speak, what are they saying to you? do they regret it. >> please don't let me die. they regret not taking the vaccine. i've had multiple people tell me that they wish they would have taken it. we've had a patient say tell my wife that she needs to take the vaccine and that he wished he did. >> reporter: there are three hospitals in this health system. this is one of them. across the system 90% of the hospitalized covid patients are unvaccinated. garrett? >> just so heartbreaking and so frustrating to hear interviews like that. thank ...

Really really is much less than on the order of 1 per million as far as death is concerned, so go ahead and get that child vaccinated. for children under 12. having them put on a mask by themselves simply does not protect them in that type of environment from covid-19. and so for those families, if you don't have a mask requirement in place under 12, you really want to advocate for making sure quarantine is in place, transparency in communication and transparent communication as far as what's happening in cases in the school and the risk to your own child. >> dr. danny benjamin, thank you. tha...