understand what it means. they are hoping that the state leads will listen to kids, geoff. >> the 8-year-old sophie is a smart one. dasha burns and morgan chesky thank you, and dr. patel, we always appreciate you on a day you are seeing patients. and now i want to bring in dr. osgood, the chairman of the broward county school board. thank you for being with us on this busy day, and you said that you had no choice but to defy the ban on mask mandates. and tragically you have lost two teachers and a assistant to complications of the covid-19. so take us inside of the decision making here. >> well, as a board, 8 of the 9 members of the board voted to protect the people of broward county. as you know, florida is becoming the epicenter for the coronavirus. in broward county, most of the hospital beds are filled to capacity, and i think that on saturday, we only had five pediatric beds left.