outlook. kevin corke s back. we are happy he s with us. covering the divisions over covid restrictions here. great to be back with you. i want you to do me a favor. keep an eye on your calendar especially early september because that s when the fda is hoping to fully approve the pfizer vaccine which public health experts can say will come with vaccine mandates. there s a growing list of republican lawmakers who say the choice to get the job or not should be up to the individual and not the government. some are pushing a bill to intranet. my views are simple. there should be no mandates, zero concerning covid. that means no mask mandates were gross of your vaccination status, no vaccine mandates. leave it to a pair of g.o.p. senators to push a veritable political boulder above very steep. texas senator ted cruz and
longer-term care to be vaccinated or provide proof of a negative test within 72 hours of the visit. let s discuss with tonight s panel, news contributor s leslie marshall, dr. janette nesheiwat, and jason chaffetz. somebody who is a familiar face here on fox news is dr. marty makary. he is got a piece. we were covering the board meetings tonight with students and parents fighting about mass mandates and schools. legal challenges. the doctor wrote a piece about this fact that he says neuroscience for masking kids. public health officials basing it on guidance on science but there s no science behind mass mandates for children. before we adder turgor to the masking, let s see data. the battles are ongoing.
defining the governor by requiring all teachers and staf to wear a mask. the doctor is back in the cdc s recommendation to wear masks in school even if they are vaccinated at this variant spreads as for critics of mass mandates for kids he says he hopes it will not have a negative long-term impact of a spring in this dr. to talk more about this and this shows exactly what it was that he sai when he was talking on the radi show about a letter or not ther may be a long-term effect about the masks. hopefully this is temporary and not that no lasting effect. could there be a lasting impact for children wearing masks again as we come back to school? i think for the younger children as they learn to speak of facial expressions are important. you have to weigh that against the benefits of the masks if yo
to create a class of socially isolated children? having them out of school again. put them back in school but put them back in school with masks mandates to keep them and their teachers safe. and an infect use disease expert at the university of maryland had to say about this. said we need to toward a goal of preventing serious disease and disability and medical consequences and not worry about every virus detected in somebody s nose. it s hard to do but i think we have to become comfortable with coronavirus not going away. do you agree to that? is the coronavirus not going away? can we ever go back to a prepandemic reality? we are never going back to a prepandemic reality. i agree we have to become comfortable with the fact this virus is going to be sticking around. our goal is to decrease severe illness hospitalization and death. but there are still some things
vaccines continue to protect you against hospitalization and death. with the new delta variant, a chance of a breakthrough infection is not zero. worse yet, there s a small chance you can pass a breakthrough infection on to someone you love. many of us have kids at home or parents who we re worried about. what i m telling most people now is to wear a mask, if you re in an indoors location with people who do you don t know. who you aren t sure are vaccinated. if you re in a crowded location, wear a mask no matter what. yeah. and the cdc is urging cities to move ahead with mass mandates. reimpose those. we know it can spread. the delta variant is contagious. it can spread even if you re vaccinated. is wearing mask going to be enough indoors? so i really think of it as being a level of layers and protections. you know, when we drive a car, we wear a seat belt. we also don t speed. if it s raining, we slow down. most of us have cars with air bags and anti-lock breaks and we try to avoi