great middle of the week. clearly they are playing that song for you, katie. she has some kind of wonderful. it is good, great day so far halfway between christmas and new year s the weird we saw a couple of poinsettias on the left and right but are you celebrating christmas? katie: why not? the tree is still on fox square. it is not new year s yet and i think it s great to have a couple of days. griff: rachel said we have to abide by the 12 days of christmas and not take any trees down here that will not happen on this show. katie: everything has been great. i am with you guys this morning. griff: a lot happened the last 24 hours, obviously regarding the border supreme court keeping title 42 in place against the white house s wishes for now. katie: and title 42 dropped, we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border, which would add up to 5 million illegal crossings each year. joey: lucas tomlinson is live, what do you got? speak with the s
unfortunately observational studies have a ton of bias in them. a group of private researchers tried to replicate the cdc study and used larger patient population over a longer period of time. they failed to reproduce significantly dropping case rates with the masked mandates. a harvard come itself out of massachusetts claim for out last month looking at the districts in massachusetts and those who remove the mask mandate in schools versus those who did not. they did a 15 week period on the big conclusion, hey, a decrease in transmission rate for the schools that kept the masked mandates in place. if you look at the data over the 15 weeks only three weeks were statistically decreasing case rates. it was not the first two weeks. it was actually the 12-15 week, and, by the way, you saw the staff, not the kids. joey, i will tell you public health is not just about the numbers. it s not about decreasing