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Other superintendent and school boards out there who are not doing this? >> it is appropriate and it's necessary. as we've said, we've shown in los angeles that all of the mitigation measures, the filtration and the masking and the testing and the information system and vaccinations are critical. and as one could see in los angeles, throughout this pandemic, we're keeping kids in school in the safest way possible. and it is the responsibility of every school board, every school administrator across the country. >> and you know what, it struck when you think about the resistance to kids getting...

Math issue at this point because as you're increasing the number of children who are infected, even if the ratio stays the same, the absolute number will go up. right now about 100,000 people in the hospital, 2% of them are children. as more and more are infected, even if a likelihood of your child getting sick, severely ill enough to go to the hospital is low, the statistics start to catch up with people. let me show you a graphic that came out of this free print from north carolina state university looking at the next three months. what do the next three months look like? what they say is in...

Distancing, and then when it comes to factor number two, like you see on the map here, there are still high levels of community transmission, and nearly all counties across the country. like you see here, nearly every county is in red, and that's why a different infectious disease experts i have talked to and pediatricians i've talked to say there's still the risk of potential outbreaks this week, compared with last week. so they're really calling on schools to enforce mitigation measures and they're calling on the community to get vaccination levels up because if we do our part, and if school...

6-year-old returning to school next monday. very important. any children that are eligible to be vaccinated, anyone over 12 should be vaccinated, really want to encourage parents to vaccinate their children. any adults in those households should also be vaccinated. and then in schools, everyone should be masked up. students, teachers, as well as staff. the cdc is saying that every school should have a mask mandate, and that is at a minimum. we also know that there are other strategies within schools that work. for example, rapid testing is very important, that's something incredibly underutili...

Analyst had cultured. ladies first, let's start with you. was that purely a political move? >> i think it was. joe biden came in and they elected him because they wanted him to give confidence in the economy. they wanted him to return to normalcy, control over the pandemic of one of the top reasons why he was elected and to be frank, even though we weren't in the middle of shutdowns anymore, he extended the unemployment benefits for that reason, to give people a sense that he was doing something for the economy, for the american people while we were in the middle of this pandemic. however, wit...