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Being safe. in terms of faculty and staff we're strongly recommending all faculty and staff being vaccinated. we know from looking at the numbers that the vast majority of our faculty and staff have already been vaccinated. we're encouraging everyone on the faculty staff to be vaccinated as well because we know the delta variant is something that's real and in front of us. and it really is having us, you know, think about ways we can continue to ensure our campus community stays safe. >> and you are allowing some exemptions for people to not take the vaccine, religious exemptions, for instance...

Workplace environment. what i mean by that, now they can effectively implement control measures like adjusting to cdc mask guidance, social distancing, testing, vaccinations. while we never thought we would be at this point, these enhanced control measures are making businesses more prepared to return to the work force in coming weeks. that's not going to be a quick return to the office. the delta variant has implemented a challenge for businesses to recalibrate their safety protocols on returning to the work force. you may see a little delay, but businesses are prepared. they have the right t...

Vaccine is working and doing its job. the other thing is, that if you hadn't been vaccinated, that test positive would have been much more severe case. so, it will -- we'll hear stories around people with breakthroughs and it will sound very stunning and puzzling. and in deed when you take a vaccine you don't expect to test positive. in fact, that is how it does work. and so we'll see this as more people get vaccinated, we'll see more and more of these cases that are -- i don't think breakthrough is the way i would describe it. i would describe them as post vaccination infections because they'...

Most people who are double vaccinated here in the states aren't tested for covid that much anymore. >> i think there's two problems here. one, it's medical dialect. we call somebody that's asymptomatic fully vaccinated and otherwise healthy, if they test positive, we still call that an infection. i think that's the wrong terminology. that's not an infection in the classical sense. how should that inform testing protocols? i think if somebody is fully vaccinated and they've received two doses of a vaccine, in the case of the u.s. olympian, usually that's pfizer and moderna, they should be exemp...

Tone, the cdc is not saying as it was before, if you have safety concerns, keep kids out of school. the cdc is saying get kids into school and deal with the safety concerns there. >> that's right. and the reason they're saying that is because we have growing evidence that there are ways to get kids back to school safely. right? so over the last year we have shown that if you mask kids, if you do testing protocols, even without vaccinations, you can keep kids safe. add to it the fact that all kids age 12 and up and certainly all teachers have had the chance to get vaccinated. and you have a ver...