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Of the pfizer—biontech vaccine. dr ashistha, dean of brown university's school of public health, joins me now from newton, massachusetts. thank you very much indeed for joining us. it is a challenging time, clearly, especially for schools. i see iseea i see a figure of something like 1200 already closed. what should they do?— should they do? first of all, thanks for— should they do? first of all, thanks for having _ should they do? first of all, thanks for having me - should they do? first of all, thanks for having me back. | thanks for having me back. schools can open. it is one of the ...

Co covid cases. it will be 15,000 revelers, about one-fourth and everyone will have to show proof of vaccination and wear a mark of. i'm joined by the president of the times square alliance tom harris. i'm interested in the calculation here because there were some calling for the event to be cancelled. what made you guys to decide with the mitigation efforts in place you could move forward here? >> well, first, thank you very much for having me. we felt that it was important to show the world that we have moved a little bit forward in our recovery from this pandemic. last year we had very few ...

Ultimate decision lies with our superintendent and our school board members and i know we did the right thing. >> i think the point that eric adams is making that a lot of parents feel, if you have mitigation efforts, the other mitigation efforts in place, like a vaccine mandate which i believe is going into place in detroit schools maybe next month for staffers -- >> 18th. >> if you have the mitigation measures in place like masking, and ventilation, and some -- and if you do all of these things it is safe to keep them there. it will -- it can protect them from getting the virus and taking it...

Other security organizations in europe. the fact that vladimir putin wants to talk suggests that there is a possibility that that could be a path toward de-escalation that will not involve military conflict. >> john, i also want to talk to you about covid this morning. omicron is forcing the biden administration to essentially shift their pandemic strategy. it feels like the goal early on was to go all-in on vaccination, and you can understand why. but they really did it over testing, and now it's becoming less of how do we beat covid and more of how do we live with it, it seems. it seems to b...

Newest offer for a list of mitigation efforts is says will make schools safer including optional random weekly school-based testing programs and stricter metrics in regards to when school should turn to remote classes and the number of infections in students and staff increasing were then tenfold in the last two weeks. the teachers union says its plan is the best option moving forward. >> it would give parents the clarity that we would begin instruction next week and we will begin in-person instruction after a period of time where we could get kids signed up. >> it did not take long for chicag...