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During the pandemic, Black and Latino youth noticed an increase in mental health issues among their peers. Members of the ACLU's SoCal youth branch took action, advocating for holistic mental health solutions in schools.
The number one way to protect kids and kids' households and school environments and communities from covid spread. >> is there a different message, or is it the same message? we know, for example, high hesitancy in some segments of the african-american community because of historical issues. high hesitancy in maybe the wider, rural areas for political reasons. is it the same message to break through, or do you need to tailor it? >> how we approach talking to specifically black and ethnic populations, especially across the south, is to hedge the concern. instead of calling it hesitancy, there i...
Important that could be because the latest numbers we had yesterday were 250,000 schoolchildren already testing positive, already getting covid. to me, that's an astounding number nationally. >> andrea, absolutely. 3,000 kids, 2500 kids are getting hospitalized every week from covid. this is not where we should be as a country at this point in this pandemic. when we have all of the tools to defeat the pandemic. so what i want to hear from the president is a clear plan of how we'll use all of our tools. people talk about vaccine mandates and i think of it as creating safe work and school enviro...
Kids, from unvaccinated parents, getting it from school environments? where is this coming from? >> you know, at this time since most of our schools have not yet started we presume that this is coming from parents and from other kids if they play together. the bottom line is we have a low vaccination rate. as long as we continue to have a low vaccination rate this is going to continue to spread. if adults get covid and the numbers are high, that's going to affect our children. our kids are now getting covid and getting sick from it. >> we are seeing different approaches to kids and preventing ...
There are reports that three educators from the broward county school district have died in the past week of covid-19. we understand that they are all women, two teachers and a teaching assistant, all of them were unvaccinated. now, just this last hour on msnbc we did interview a board member, a school board member in broward county, and she talked about how these deaths, obviously very sad, but how they highlight the need for not only mask mandates but also vaccinations. take a listen. >> we have to get vaccinated. that's the measure that we can use to protect ourselves. and in school environ...