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Doesn't have its place for children. when there are very high rates of hospitalization, if we get a new variant in the future that children are particularly susceptible to, we may want to bring masks back. but we should also be honest and say that masking has had a cost, especially for the youngest learners in people with english as a second language, children with learning disabilities. there has been a cost to them. so the risk-benefit calculation has really changed. >> i think it's important what you just said there. that you don't think case counts are the right metric to use here. we have...

Full, and restrictions, with the first restriction, should be the restriction on children. while for adults you can say what's the harm of adults masking when they go into a grocery store, there is a harm that we should be discussing of children continuing to mask. it doesn't mean that it doesn't have its place for children, there are high rates of hospitalization and a new variant in the future, children are particularly susceptible to, we might want to bring them back but we should be intellectually honest and say that asking has had a cost especially for the youngest learners, people with e...

Those patient visitation rights have now been restored. they also bear unintended consequences for places like assisted living facilities, which typically are not as equipped to deal with infectious diseases. now we spoke to a pediatric doctor over here in florida, who weighed in on the situation. >> it is always a risk benefit calculation. you always want to do everything you can to mitigate the risks as much as you can. but you have to keep the patient at the center of that discussion. and really, what is best for the patient in that regard, best for the family. i think there are ways to do ...

Urgency of the current moment. i think more more every day parents are seeing the news, watching what's happening and thinking about things and doing their risk benefit calculation differently. i hope the parents that listen and parents still have questions have the opportunity to have those answered and feel confident in vaccinated their kids soon. it includes many, many kids still. >> absolutely. as we saw it's the majority unvaccinate thad are suffering the brunts. let's focus on those vaccinate and boosted. we're seeing this rise in cases and hospitalizations. surges in the midwest and the...

Vaccinating everybody -- i mean, people in their 20s in israel have stood in line for an hour just, you know, this week and gotten a vaccine -- got be the third booster shot. >> yeah, i don't think there is a question that the vaccine, the third dose would add an additional level of immune protection for everybody who is getting it. i think what dr. faust is getting at is there is a different risk benefit calculation for different groups of people. there i agree. i think that we are entering a part a point in the pandemic where people are making different risk decisions. we see this happening ...