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Twitter and it's not something that i had considered, but a viewer is asking, what can parents do to ensure their kids wear their masks at school especially in states like florida. kids will be subjected to peer pressure, even bullying if they are some of the few wearing masks. just remind everyone florida's governor there has banned local mask mandates. so dr. patel, what's a parent to do? no parent wants their kid getting bullied for any reason. >> that's right, craig, and they shouldn't be. number one, try to do everything possible to communicate with the teacher in your children's classroo...

>> i'm dasha burns in washington county, tennessee where schools have re-opened with no mask mandate, no social distancing requirements and no strict protocols for quarantining children who have been exposed at school. i was speaking to the ceo of the children's hospital who says she and her fellow health workers are doing all they can to convince leadership at the district level and the county level to take more action, but they're searching for ways to make the point, to make their voices heard and convince folks to take more steps to protect these kids. back to you. >> doctors patel and hot...

We don't care or what, me worry? and this is problematic and the social distancing recommendations from cdc. if you read them closely you realize they all assume universal mask wearing and i don't know what you do with social distancing rules, and that's going to be really tough to do this when you have such a screaming high level of transmission. if the kids aren't vaccinated and masked it's hard to imagine how this is going to go well and i'm predicting we're going to see a lot of schools return to virtual learning and everybody was saying how important it is to do in-person learning and no ...

You know you talked about that for younger kids, when are the 12 and under kids getting a mistake. there could be a change in the emergency investigation to get the younger kids vaccinated. but a big issue is masks that you have been talking about with dr. patel. all students, staechers staffing with everyone indoors should be wearing a mask regardless of their vaccination status. it's part of this broader recommendation. really a change in recommendation that said even vaccinated people should be masking indoors in places with higher transmission. basically the entire country at. this point. ...

So we asked you to send in your questions. we have two experts. a former obama white house policy director who is also an msnbc contributor. dr. peter hotez as well. dr. patel we'll start with you. i want to ask about what we just heard fromming alyson there. how concerned are you there about what is going on perhaps a bellweather. >> it is, this is a very large canary in a cole mine. this is avoidable. and you pass the masks for