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Heard. >> okay. now hear the science. >> we have numerous studies from last school year that repeatedly demonstrate that school outbreaks are prevented when we have masking in schools. >> reporter: now briefly back to lebron james' decision to get vaccinated. he made it clear he's not now promoting anything. he's not getting involved in anyone else's business. and that's fair enough. he's a basketball player. not an epidemiologist. but, still, his personal decision could influence others to do the same. and maybe get us a little bit closer to that still vague goal of herd immunity. >> nick wat...

The most ever pediatric cases in a week since the pandemic started. and the majority of those cases are, you won't be surprised to hear this, in states with high community transmission and low vaccination. and you're seeing hospitalizations also be on the increase for pediatrics. and the tough part is, when you look at states like florida or texas, many of those pediatric cases are related to school outbreaks. you have to ask this, what is the cognitive dissonance? jon meacham said this, what will it take to have us come together if not keeping our children safe? >> it makes this poll even mor...

Have, and again, looking at what we've learned from that period of time and having tools like masking, vaccines, all of the ventilation issues, we used a multi-layered approach to create the safest possible controlled environment in schools so we can keep kids safe while they learn in the best environment possible. i think it's the thread of delta and the information and frankly the science that's been collected around the delta variant and its transmissibility and the fact that it is affecting kids. because it is so transmissible. we worked with ucla. we worked with stanford and johns hopkins...

>> 60% agree with all the testing you've been doing. 5200 cases were reported among students, 2900 among staffs. 67% of the school outbreaks are associated with sports, so you're going to start with that. what is -- what happens if you don't get vaccinated? >> we're giving kind of like a timeline that says that people -- kids -- students should get vaccinated. you mentioned sports. that's one of the first things, those that are involved in extracurricular activity, the data you just cited, those that are playing sports and doing athletics and more things are more susceptible and there is more ...

Get them under control before they happen. toughest part is we have so little data. it is inconceivable, here we are a year and a half into the pandemic, and still don't have great consistent recommendations for schools across the country and still don't have strong data what's happening in those schools where there are outbreaks in the south. >> why don't we have good data? >> it is a great question. we lack data on a lot of things. listen, the cdc stopped tracking mildly symptomatic break through infections back in the spring. we know that break through infections don't cause hospitalization...