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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...

Point, alex. it is a big picture because it's one that's different in different places. let me start by saying i think it's important for kids to be in school. we've seen sort of the impact on this. we also have to weigh that against the surge that specifically is happening with omicron right now, and it's lead leaving teachers sick at home, out of the educational classroom. how do we balance that increased number of cases with not enough staff. that's why i say the answer is probably not the same everywhere. if you're in a place where there is enough staffing, where there is vaccination, wher...

5 being eligible. >> well, look, it is a concern. partially, a result that they have small nasopharynx. so, small throat and a little inflammation from the virus probably closes them off, and makes breathing and other things hard. um, and the main thing that you have to do, again, is what do we have? by don't have a vaccine for them. so we have to rely on the public-health mitigation measures. we shouldn't take them into public places, like restaurants and grocery stores. um, you should wait for the frequency of cases to come down before lots of socialization. um, we should really make sure, w...

We're still in crisis mode. so we need those individual behavior changes, but we also need to put policies in place, policies that are needed to implement these mitigation measures so that we can definitively head into that endemic phase. >> here's the thing, dr. blackstock, which is i am sure both of you already are doing those things. will those efforts work if you do not have people onboard at scale? >> that's such a great question, alicia. that's why we need policy. that's why policies are so incredible important. so to tell people go get vaccinated, to tell them go wear a mask, i think it...

If your visiting elderly relatives or immunocompromised people, wait three days and get tested and then see the vulnerable people. >> don't cancel everything fun. that is the headline i got there from you dr. wen. thank you so much for being with us. all right. to that point, the spike in cases is happening just as a lot of people are getting together for the holiday eecvents and pos shows that people are tired of mitigation measures. and this is bipartisan. 64% of republican, and 63% of democrats till tell monmouth university they're warn out by the changes to daily life. and a number of peop...