by not reporting their status by friday's deadline. massachusetts is 600 state police officers short because of its mandate. and the seattle police union rt tells the associated press there could be a mass exodus ahead of that city's mandate midnight tonight. joining us, dr. paul offitt, children's hospital of philadelphia. this is obviously a very serious issue for the safety of cities. if officers get laid off or suspended. it's also a serious health issue for the officers themselves. listen to your friend dr. fauci. >> more police officers die of covid than they do in other causes of death. so it doesn't make any sense to not trying to protect yourself as well as the colleagues that you work with. >> i know that you support vaccine mandates, and i presume that you support them for police officers. how do you balance this if you are a mayor and a third of the force is not going to show up.