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Vaccinate today, the people who are unvaccinated who account for about 75% of the hospitalizations, it's not really going to make a big difference over the next month because they need a second shot and then 14 days after the second shot. public health measures that we've mentioned, better air quality, masking, not going into crowd ed indoor spaces, those ae really important measures in order to get past omicron. you need to plan today for three month from now so we're not caught in the same problem. >> children's hospital of philadelphia has new guidance aimed at keeping kids in classrooms. t...

Been -- they get to be the sole decider of whether kids go to school or not, rather than a -- an engaged community and parents getting their say. and -- and principals and teachers. if -- obviously, if there is a situation where a classroom or a school, it isn't safe for them to go, i don't think parents want them to go. but what the union has done in this case is they have unilaterally shut down the entire district. 340,000 kids can't go to school because they -- they have engaged in a strike that violates the law. >> i appreciate your time, jeffrey. and again, i will just make the point that...

The white house says they want to see them open again. a lot of them are in chicago. my next guest says the risk to children for school closures and isolation are far more concerning than covid itself. dr. david ruben is executive director of policy lab at the children's hospital of philadelphia. dr. ruben, that's very much. what do you think is the most important thing for people and schools and the white house to see about where we are today with kids and schools? >> well, look, you know, over the last couple years, we had to in many ways the decisions we had to do around children, particula...

Smoother as new york and l.a. to vaccine mandates for students in the fall. but a lot of the resistance breaks down simple logic. senator ted cruz tweets that covid mandates are wrong. schools have no right to get your 5-year-old vaccinated. he is for getting about mandates that have long existed for measles, mumps, polio and chickenpox. of course we politicized this pandemic to our detriment as a nation. and teachers unions are not immune. the same standards have got to apply if we're going to return our nation to something like sanity. so here's the deal. follow the data. get your kids vacci...

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