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Vaccinating all eligible children reduce or alleviate the need for school closures? doctor: thanks for having me back. first and foremost there's no reason for school closures at this point. remote schooling has been a disaster for america's kids, two years after the pandemic this is even on the table. to your direct question, it would help a lot. it would help a lot for two reasons, and even omicron breakthroughs it's better to be vaccinated and second, some kids really do get sick and you would make a big difference but it's not necessary or essential as doctor walensky said, we can get kids...

Scenario 13 here. >> yes >> reporter: a mixture of in-person and remote learning, an ipad for every student, and staff focused on emotional support for students, all measures helping to keep the district school doors open even amid the current omicron wave the superintendent says they're taking a long view of educating in a pandemic. >> we've got to figure out how we respond to problems we don't even know about yet. >> reporter: under federal relief bills congress allocated $190 billion for schools to respond to the pandemic the department of education says much of that money has gone toward s...

People and make those masks available. it will save lives and save money. but you know, anderson, it is not the only thing that we have got to do. you know, we've got to continue to work on making sure that we have as many people vaccinated as possible. we've got to make sure that our schools are safe with the kind of ventilation systems that can keep xlclassrooms healthy. we need to make sure that the new therapies that are out there, so that when people come down with covid, they can get the treatment, perhaps a pill form. pfizer has done some good work on this. we got to distribute that as ...

Recovery act, through the act that -- the first act we passed to be able to make sure schools were able to be safe. so we have new ventilation systems available for them. we have the way they handle a scrub down laboratories and i mean, the laboratories kid goes to, to go to the bathroom. cafeterias, buses, et cetera. all that money is there. there's billions of dollars made available that's there. not every school district has used it as well as it should be used. but it's there. so in addition to that, there is now another $10 billion for testing of students in the schools. so i think, as ti...

N95, fine then don't. but we should at least educate people and make those masks available. it will save lives and save money. but, you know, anderson, it is not the only thing that we have got to do. we have got to continue to work on making sure that we have as many people vaccinated as possible. we have got to make sure that our schools are safe with the kind of ventilation systems that can keep classrooms healthy. we need to make sure that the new therapies that are out there so that when people come down with covid, they can get the treatment. perhaps in a pill form that they need. pfizer...