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Take precautions over the next couple of months while the delta variant moves through the population. i think children should be wearing masks in schools, schools should be implementing other mitigation, like social pods, encourage testing and children staying at home if they have symptoms of covid and get testing. a lot of districts are using screening testing effectively on a weekly or biweekly basis. so there's a lot of things we can be doing. we're going to see infection levels decline across the south we're seeing it now, the south probably peaked a couple weeks ago. the risk as you see t...

Of giving it to another kid because of the mask? >> that's correct. that's the primary intervention. these schools didn't do widespread screening testing, they didn't do widespread ventilation changes. they simply had universal masking. they had very high compliance with that. we had substudies in several districts which showed a compliance rate greater than 90% in the mainstream curriculum and we're getting ready to submit that for publication later this month. but, yeah, the primary intervention masking. >> do you know what it would be without a mask, if a child with covid came to a location...

Vietnam’s second homegrown candidate vaccine Covivac began the second stage of clinical trials in the northern province of Thai Binh’s Vu Thu district on August 11 with the screening testing to choose qualified volunteers.

Tested. they are not allowed back into the classroom. we are encouraging staff to do the same. make sure we understand this, at this point we are not currently doing any form of like screening testing. >> are you allowed to require that all of the adults are vaccinated, the teachers and staff? >> at this point we are not requiring it. we are incentivizing. so we are paying the $100 incentive for anyone vaccinated and anyone who gets vaccinated. >> are you keeping your students in pods? are they moving from class to class? >> we are transferring classes. we are talking to students about reducin...