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Won't budge from school mandates choosing political fights over pandemic preventions, so private companies step in where government leaders won't. starting monday, amazon requiring all warehouse workers to mask up. in a big move, united airlines is requiring vaccines for its employees. to florida, natasha chen live in orlando for us. what are you seeing and hearing there? it's getting worse down there. >> reporter: there is a real surge in cases in florida. we are seeing an average of more than 19,000 new cases per day in the past week and that's higher than any other seven-day period in the e...

Types of mandates. wolf? >> that's a significant development from the justice department right there. thank you very much. athena jones reporting. let's discuss with the acting director of the disease control. let me get your reaction to this news right away. i think it is significant that the opinion from the justice department now says that the government as well as private companies can mandate vaccinations for their employees. what is your reaction to that? what does that suggest to you? >> well, wolf, you know, i think what we're going to see is that a number of people who have been on th...

Country now. in terms of the mandate issue, the challenge is going to be here as you heard the political optics. but as a public health person, i'll do whatever i can to get people vaccinated. it's legal, ethical and treats people with the kind of information that they need to have. in the public sector, you have to offer exclusions whether they're religious, medical, and what we're very concerned about is that many will take an exclusion as opposed to complying with the mandate. that can happen with many, many school mandates. >> i mean, obviously vaccines are one thing. but then it seems the...

Also an msnbc contributor. dr. offit, you pointed out that the tragic irony of what's happening in mississippi is they have one of the highest general vaccine rates for children in the nation, close to 99%, yet we just heard from ellison when it comes to covid vaccines, they're 49th or 50th. what accounts for that and what's needed to change it? >> so every state in this country has school mandates. as of at least a couple of years ago only two of them didn't have philosophical or religious exemptions. mississippi and west virginia were the only two states where if you sent your child to publi...