it the plan, encouraging masking and encouraging testing, health care steps for people to deal with covid who already have it. ways to keep the economy flowing. and keeping the economy going is part of the cost benefit test that they applied to as they slide down closer to requirements. you were talking, jim, in the last hour with dr. wynn who said we ll require it on airplanes. senior officials considered that but decided against it because they thought the cost benefit is not that much. there is not much covid being spread on airlines with good filtration and mask compliance and high percentage of people are already vaccinated and they re worried about big jack ups in airports. but there are other steps that we expect to hear from the president to try to encourage sand push very hard private businesses to join the federal government in requiring vaccinations. sanjay, i wonder as you hear
all the news. today one of the nation s largest school districts broward county returns to in-person learning with a district-wide mask mandate. why is this so critical? the governor, this mandate, defies governor ron desantis executive order across the state that bans mandates like that. the state is looking to punish the county. it s going to punish people financially it appears for trying to take simple health care steps. cnn s amara walker is in south florida this morning. what is the investigation going to look at and what legal steps is the governor trying to take to enforce the order? reporter: well, jim, as you ve been saying, i mean, as you know, there s been this escalating fight over mask mandates between governor ron desantis and at least two public school districts, including broward county public schools, and all of this culminated last night during an emergency meeting by the florida board of education where they voted unanimously to, number one, investigate these
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