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with the science? well, so it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. well that guidance relaxes more colleges across the country are reinstating virtual learning before students return from the holiday break at a fear of a future spread. joining me now is antonia hilton, in massachusetts, we re also joined by emergency medical physician dr. mario ramirez, he is the former pandemic and emerging threats coordinator in the office of global affairs during the obama administration. but let us start in los angeles where steve patterson is at a testing site outside of los angeles international airport. steve, what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, katy, i m at l.a.x., part of the travel nightmare that so many passengers are going through and part of that is because the new variant which is spiking here in california and it is specifically in los angeles county. to help mitigate that, the airport is set up as you see, testing center right here.
are in a different risk category than children who are vaccinated. most americans have chosen not to vaccinated their kids. but for those persons with kids underage five, that is a different risk calculus. but there are things that we could do to help make the workplace safer for parents, if kids of that age and that includes a good testing regime to make sure when you re coming into the office you re around other people who are testing negative or making sure that people are using masks and washing their hands in the workplace. those things could still matter but it is important for every parent to make that decision in light of their own circumstances. but recognize that this is a higher risk category. but doctor ramirez, when we look at the way this efgts children, we re seeing a rise in hospitalizations, the numbers were so low to begin with. so 4% might sound scare but it is not a big number of kids who are being hospitalized with this. and i just wonder if this is a bit over th
spreads, they re also looking at a psychological readjustment for students who thought this would be a much more normal semester and now facing a reality in which in some cases they re going backwards and in having to look at life as an earlier stage of quarentine and earlier stage of this pandemic, katy. don t underestimate the psychological toll. dr. ramirez, let s talk about the practicality of this and whether it is a good idea. what do you think of this going back to virtual learning for a few weeks to get everybody tested? i mean, is that going to mean that it is safe to go back to the classroom? well, what it looks like is that we re probably in store for at least four weeks, maybe even longer, of a significant surge in cases here in the united states. and what the data shows is that if you re vaccinated, you re very well protected and you may be infected but unlikely to have a bad outcome. and if you re boosted, those odds are even better. so for a lot of the universities,