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Week alone. meanwhile, a new vaccine mandate is in effect for the largest public school system in the nation. new york city mayor bill de blasio announcing all nyc department of education staff must have at least one vaccine dose by september 27th. no exceptions. let's bring in nbc's morgan chesky from hard-hit houston. stephanie gosk is in new york city. and dr. mario ramirez is an emergency physician and former pandemic and emerging threats coordinator at the hhs office of global affairs. so morgan, where you are in texas, the icus are almost full. what's the prospect of vaccine mandates in ...

Uninformed. they are more than informed at this point, who refuse to do the right thing. the only thing to robert gibbs' point is we need to keep protecting ourselveses from stupid because i'm not going to let stupid kill me and i'm not going to let stupid infect me, and i will take those precautions and i can't at this point help you if you don't want to help yourself. >> dr. ramirez, let's talk about booster shots for those people who are getting so scared by this delta virus and think that they're either older or have an immune problem. san francisco is already rolling them out for the vuln...

Pre-pandemic. there's work left to do and that's the job that this administration and president biden have to do which is continue to make that case. >> dr. mario ramirez, as always, thank you so much to michael steele, robert gibbs, thanks to all, and kids and covid, cases in children up 84% in just the last week. coming up, i'll be talking to the head of the american academy of pediatrics on how to keep your child safe. first, after plenty of hold-ups the senate could be ready to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill tomorrow. senator tim kaine helped negotiate the plan. stay with us. t...

Reopen safely and what would your advice be to parents, certainly those in florida? >> the american academy of pediatrics is clear that everyone in the schools from the staff down to every single student that is more than 2 years of age should be wearing masks. whether or not they're vaccinated or not. i concur with the american academy of pediatrics. and virtually every other medical society in the united states agrees with that perspective. so that's the best recommendation for our schools. and that is the recommendation i will be making to the superintendent when we hold our meeting next we...

Vaccinated. landcy graham, despite being vaccinated, has covid-19. joining me now, dr. eileen marty, a professor of infectious diseases at florida international university. also with us, dr. mario ramirez, an emergency physician and managing director at opportunity labs. great to you have both of you with us. i'd like to begin with you. give us the situation there on the ground in florida from your vantage point. are we anywhere near the end of this battle with the virus? >> no. we are at the beginning. in fact, one of the things that gave our public health school crunching the data showed is ...