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>> well, john, look, i know these are tough, tough times for parents and for educators. as you mentioned, i'm a dad of two kids. one of them is old enough to be vaccinated. my son is 5 and now fully vaccinated. but my daughter is under 5 and she is not eligible yet for a vaccine. my wife and i are planning to send her to school. our school has the appropriate layers of precaution. it is a public school, in washington, d.c., and we feel proud of what they're doing. in the next few weeks, schools are going to have to make some challenging decisions here. we hope that they use the mitigation meas...

Able to or willing to comply with ten days' worth of isolation. this was a way to tell people, make sure to isolate in the first five days. >> we want to get people back out if they're feeling well, but to also have them be masked. >> there's plenty of room for debate, because a lot of people don't like long forced quarantines to begin with, or feeling like you can't go work if you want to. on the other hand, we've seen the labor unions and others saying the rollout wasn't clear and wasn't fair to the safety concerns of their membership. so it is a big debate. after five days, you can leave is...

Milder symptoms in children than the delta variant, and new york officials say that every child between 5 and 11 years old recently hospitalized with covid was not fully vaccinated. >> i really do hope that parents understand that the best thing they can do to protect their children from severe illness is to get them vaccinated. >> reporter: also today, an explaination from the c.d.c. director on why the agency's new guidelines of a shortened isolation period following a covid infection did not call for getting a negative test. >> we did not include a testing requirement in isolation because w...

Here on testing because i think that's really the thing i've heard a lot from people is, okay, if you look at the nhs guidelines in the u.k., they say if you get a rapid antigen test, which they of course make available for free to everyone in the u.k. under their health care system, negative two days in a row you can exit quarantine. in the #they've implemented a system. six days asymptomatic test you exit. the test to stay policy that's been announced frd public schools, which you've played a role in, similar lines. here there's no testing requirement. if someone says i have covid and i just...

Todd: a number of universities forcing students to jump through hoops to curb covid 19 and sanctions, princeton university the latest mandate covid booster shots and restrict student travel. miles mcknight, a student at princeton, joined me now. here are just some of the new requirements, covid booster shot is mandatory, and you must present a negative covid test, limited travel outside the immediate area talking about mercer county, you can't leave the county, can't leave the surrounding town. and or mask mandate basically saying you can take off your mask to even eat so you can't do events t...