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Football bowl games, the military bowl and fenway bowl will not be played despite these set backs, some leading health public health officials are optimistic about the new year. >> yeah, i think it is definitely the year we get this under control. let me explain why. this holiday season no one thinks this is the holiday season we were hoping for but contrast it to last year. it's so much better. well, next holiday season, i doubt covid will be completely gone. actually, it won't be gone. it will be around but much, much better than this year because while the virus continues to change, so do w...

Masking led to a 1% chance of transmission from a child with covid. as this plays out in the real world, too many students and teachers are facing set backs. take cob county schools, the second largest school district in georgia. masks are encouraged there but not mandated. so far, more than 700 covid cases have been reported since schools reopened on august 2nd. that's a small percentage of the kids in the district. 0.69% of all students but it's only been a week and a half and numbers are climbing by the day. the situation has forced some parents like my next guest to pull her kids from the ...

Schools once again a battleground over covid safety. it's not just because the mask debate is steeped in politics. some doctors are at odds over the science questioning the needs for masks on kids. others site new research like this. based on data from one million students and staff in north carolina, it shows universal masking led to a 1% chance of transmission from a child with covid. as this plays out in the real world, too many students and teachers are facing set backs. take cob county schools, the second largest school district in georgia. masks are encouraged there but not mandated. so ...

Measures, we can make in person schooling safe and it's very important that we still stick to in person schooling because if we're looking at some of the data and the studies coming out and the risk benefit analysis, there is significant harm to children that have to do schooling remotely. you know, it's the mental health toll it's taking, the educational toll, the set backs. i think we can make schools safer even in the context of delta if you consistently apply the mitigation measures that we have in place. >> okay. well, another viewer is asking this question. they're asking when will child...

Themselves with this trade war, but southeast asian nation s are gaining, it's already been reported that a lot of chinese supply chains are moving out of, for example, outside of hong kong here, guangdong province to other parts of southeast asia like vietnam and cambodia and indonesia and so forth. so those countries are gaining. and the banks and the accountants and the financiers that fund those activities or support them are also gaining as well. so there are some winners. >> all right. always good to hear there are some winners there. robert kepp, we'll keep an eye on all of this incredi...