school associated covid-19 outbreak were 3.5 times higher in schools with no mask requirement than they are in schools with mask requirement at the beginning of the school year. mitigation strategies are key to maintaining normal life and healthiest vocation. andy slavitt, has been deeply involved for mitigation in the vaccine from up until the june. he served as the biden white house senior adviser for the covid virus response, and he joins me. now you know, my first thought when i saw this news andy was, i remember back in spring of 2020 when we were in the first wave of this pandemic. things have shut down, everybody was kind of, having their head spinning. mcconnell's abstention with a dentist-y, identifying employers and others on covid lawsuits, and i remember thinking, it's american, there's probably gonna be a lot of covid lawsuits, and i actually feel like there have not been. this struck me as kind of a novel tool, for parents who are trying to change to policies of the local level, what do you