to get a vaccine isn t going to get a vaccine. i hope it s mandated for everybody, but it s not going to be. i don t know. if we had a deferent governor, it might be different. now, all of those people were here in miami dade where the vaccination rate is higher than the state rate here. it s 65 % here. and i should also note that the mayor of miami dade tweeted, great news, and then talked about the full fda approval to the pfizer vaccine and encouraged people to go out and get vaccinated. you re seeing the leaders use this as a way to pub people to get push people to get their first shot or get fully vaccinated. appreciate it. thank you. joining me now, a medical director at baylor college of medicine and an emergency medicine physician. great to have you with us. as we heard from elizabeth and some of the folks on the street
had to be quarantined since in-person classes began in florida. this, according to a cnn analysis of the public data. more than 6,000 covid infections were identified among the state s 15 largest school districts. with infections surging, miami dade county begins in-person classes today with a mask man day-to-day firmly in place. despite the florida governor s ban on mask requirements and vow to punish districts who impose such mandates. cnn s leyla santiago is in miami dade. leyla, you spoke with the superintendent there. what did he say? is he going to stick with this despite the government s fight? reporter: he says he will. and that s not something new. he s been saying that since miami dade school district passed that mandate last week. the superintendents that are moving forward with these type of mandates are well aware of what could be financial consequences. the state already notifying two districts saying we plan to with
reporter: and here is why miami dade is so important. this is the largest school district in the state. 3 34,000 students enrolled in this district. and they are now one of seven school districts moving forward with these mandates. jim, i can tell you in checking in with a few other districts there are others that as we speak are considering moving down the same path. understood, leyla good to have you there and seems a lot of parents support it. still to come this hour, president biden now says the u.s. troops may not leave afghanistan on that self-imposed deadline of august 31st. taliban responding those troops must be out by the end of the month. are we going to listen to them? later a spike in covid cases fueled by the delta variant has forced an entire texas school district into quarantine. will that make the state s governor change his mind on mask mandates? we ll see. or do the politics rule?
quarantine isolation. and this doesn t include miami dade or broward, the two largest school ducts istricts in that s and they haven t even started yet. this is just a continuation of what we ve spoken about previously where we re seeing more and more cases and more and more hospitalizations among minors in the state of florida. the gop governors who are going after masks, how does it work with people? it doesn t work. ron desantis is one of those governors, right, just talking about florida, you talk about texas as well with greg abbott. look at this. in terms of mask mandates in school, do you support them in your own district, a new poll fresh out, 69% overall. that s a fairly high proportion. there s this movement to try and have state laws to prohibit mask
Segundo a Secretaria de Saúde, até o momento, 1.789.948 pessoas tomaram a primeira dose da vacina no DF. Amanhã começa a imunização a partir dos 18 anos