school has been tough for so many reasons, and so many kids have been left behind over the past couple of years because it s so hard to shift back and forth. and it s hard to be in class remotely when you re in third grade and have to stare at a screen all day. i know. what s really tricky is we also know there s a chance teachers and staff are going to have to be out the next few weeks because of how transmissible omicron is. maybe not in school, but because of how we live our lives. i think it s important to get kids in school as much as possible for education, and socioeconomic consequence. for us as parents having to take care of them while they re out. we need to have a back up plan, contingency plan in case schools shutdown. the president said there is all the money for ventilation, masking in schools. we have these tools. let s remember, try to use them and get our kids back in the classroom. it s just all of this is so disruptive. okay, dr. ali raja, harvard medical sch
reduce the risk of transmission. and ideally to reduce people and teacher absence from school. and that s important because we saw those absence rates increased quite significantly in december as the new variant began to take hold. significantly in december as the new variant began to take hold. yeah, we don t know how variant began to take hold. yeah, we don t know how much variant began to take hold. yeah, we don t know how much the variant began to take hold. yeah, we don t know how much the christmas | don t know how much the christmas holidays will have acted as a fire break given how transmissible omicron is. obviously most schools if they were getting their pupils in on the first couple of days of term to do lateral flow tests in school we will hopefully be able to establish who is negative and who is positive and therefore try to curb cases rising right from the outset. how concerned are you, especially for those peoples in exam years, years 11 and 13 about the possible
slipping through the net if they are not able to go to school and have day to day contact with their teachers. and face coverings are one mitigation that the government is taking to reduce the risk of transmission, and ideally to reduce pupil and teacher absence from school, and that s important because we saw those absence rates increase quite significantly in december, as the new variant began to take hold. yeah, we don t know how much the christmas holidays will have acted as a firebreak, given how transmissible omicron is, but obviously most schools, if they are getting their pupils and on the first couple of days of term to do lateral flow tests in school, will hopefully be able to establish who is negative, who is positive, and therefore to try to curb cases rising right from the outset. how
come away thinking, i don t know, blatant falsehood like children are on ventilators across this country in record numbers. either way, peter, either way, rachel, the bottom line is this you have to have and this is an important issue, because it s the issue going forward, you have to have supreme court justices who are smarter. you have to have supreme court justices who are better, rachel. rachel: absolutely. and by the way i know that, you know, i have to ask the question, when we see that omicron is you are seeing break through cases more in those that are vaccinated. i saw alex berenson studies coming out of europe you are more likely to get omicron if you are vaccinated. why are we forcing people to get vaccinated if you are more likely to get omicron in the variant that we have now? that makes no sense at all. all of this, the vaccine mandates are precursor for the
people when we hear about unvaccinated people in when we hear about unvaccinated people in hospital, we have to consider people in hospital, we have to consider that they were children. ithink consider that they were children. i think there consider that they were children. i think there are still things we need i think there are still things we need to i think there are still things we need to plan out a bit more about this is need to plan out a bit more about this is an need to plan out a bit more about this is an unpredictable virus. but are trying this is an unpredictable virus. but are trying to keep everybody safer, with the are trying to keep everybody safer, with the struggle of the economy, is a sticky with the struggle of the economy, is a sticky balance. gne with the struggle of the economy, is a sticky balance. a sticky balance. one quick one. tricky balance- a sticky balance. one quick one. tricky balance. an a sticky balance. one quick one. t