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District will provide enhanced weekly testing . on top of that, the city and district will provide students and staff with kn 95 masks. there is also a provision for upgraded contact tracing, where people will be paid to do the contact tracing. and here was another sticking point, a threshold or metrics in place, triggering schools individually to flip to remote learning while in the middle of high transmission of covid. and when we say high transmission, we're talking about guidelines outlined by the cdc. getting here wasn't easy. here's what the mayor had to say. >> this was not necessary to...

Expressing what is happening. "the washington post" is reporting the cdc is considering updating their mask guidance to suggests that everybody use n 95 or kn 95 masks and just a few days ago they said cloth masks were still fine. so what is going on? this one is a kn 95. i think the n 95 i have is tougher to breathe in. what is going on here? >> if you can wear a kn 95 or n 95, if you can get it, it is absolutely the best protection. no question about it. nobody disputes that. the cdc doesn't dispute that. they hopefully will update guidance. every test that's been done shows this is what to ...

Next. he was right about omicron and we'll ask him about that in a moment. first, grady trimble is in chicago. he says that teachers are threaten to strike if they have to go back. >> yeah, hi, martha. chicago schools are back in session today but that could change because the teacher's union is threatening to walk out. they asked the district to go virtual the first two weeks in order to implement new safety protocols. they're asking for testing for all staff and students. they want 300 test sites established and they want the district to hand out masks like n-95 and kn-95 to all teachers and...

Any shortage of the masks that of some time ago were not available. if you can tolerate an n95, do it. if you want to get a kn-95, fine. and what the cdc has said -- and it gets misinterpreted -- but they are saying wearing any mask is better than no mask at all. but there is a gradation of capability of preventing you from getting infected and from you transmitting it to someone else. so, we should be wearing the best-possible masks that we can get. that's a fact. >> dr. fauci, appreciate your time. thank you. coming up, the georgia democrat noticeably absent from president biden's georgia ...

Just about the question about cloth masks, because, obviously, this is one of those things that affects us, a lot of people. i don't quite know what the answer is. i've heard now, we've had people on our air, they're basically kind of useless, better than nothing, but you really want the n-95 or the kn-95. or just some other kind of medical mask. what do you recommend? >> yeah. there -- well, i recommend that you get the highest-quality mask that you can tolerate and that's available to you. right now, doesn't seem to be any shortage of the masks that of some time ago were not available. if yo...