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Families? >> it is a great question to ask, katy. and i have kids myself and what i would say is that these things are all in the abstract until it is your own child. >> yeah. >> and i think every parent knows what that feels like. and i think the best advice that we could continue to give parents, right, is to say if you vaccinated your family, the risk continues to decrease and my hope in the next year we'll develop a vaccine for kids as young as six months and that will continue to make things safer. but it is a gradual process. it is great if we have vaccines for kids that young already an...

To honor front line health care workers. >> reporter: the vast majority of workers we take care of now come to our interactions distressed. >> that feeling of goodwill is go gone. >> long since dissipated. >> unbelievable. joining me now is dr. rob davidson. he's at the university of wisconsin. doctor, tell me what you make of what we just saw. vitriol against some health care workers and what they're facing now. how do you explain it? is there a way to explain it? >> you can just hear it, and dr. r ryan, when he has a deep sigh and has to reflect on how it's come to be. we're seeing people in...

These change and how long you're infected changes, i just wear the mask. i my daughter just had covid, similar situation, she hasn't had a negative pcr but had a negative rapid test suggesting she's not contagious, she'll go back to school in new york in january later this month, and we'll be wearing a mask because, you know, i think it's just what we do. it's such an easy thing. it's such a simple thing to do. you know, public health is hard. i had a good friend of mine dd dr. charles holmes at georgetown tweeted this, public health is hard, and people are doing their best, and folks on twitt...

Average american family out there. >> what are you hearing from people coming in in terms of getting a test where you are? it's not easy, as you point out. >> it is a challenge. especially now with requiring a test that is not an at-home test. they can make decisions about getting together, travel, work. but a lot of people resort to the e.r. people come in and we'll do the test in the waiting room. many will get their result on an app and cut out of the e.r. before we get them back. we're so full unfortunately they are waiting several hours. i don't blame people for doing that. i wish the sys...

Drum as so many other people. we need to get more people vaccinated. i've got a 15-year-old at my house asking me is it time to schedule the booster. she's ready to do it. parents need to get on board and get ready to do it. we may be at a point, and i think we are that vaccine mandates are the only way to do that, and frankly, the biden administration has been trying to do this, but with disinformation being spread about vaccines, from too many places, and then lawsuits trying to challenge those mandates, they have been hitting these road blocks. >> yeah, dr. davidson, i'm always interested i...