their own ethics rules and requirements. new rules in place in october, but the president s expectation that all including independent agencies are held to a high standard, with high ethical standards, avoiding conflict of interest speaks for itself. and covid, we know that the, we know the rapid tests, they have gone to companies that procure materials as opposed to companies that are manufacturing the tests. are you satisfied that there s adequate testing of manufacturing capability in place and going to procure the tests? well, let me give you an update on kind of a couple of timelines or updates on timelines. we are working closely with manufacturing and distributors to understand what they can ship and when, and actively working through the timelines for distribution as you touched on
maskless at a miami restaurant. according to a statement, the congresswoman is experiencing symptoms, is recovering at home and received her booster shot in the fall. john, we are reporting it, and you can decide how you feel about that. she was obviously highly criticized for not only, not only going maskless but going to a state where she was very critical of the policies, the covid policies there, and now she has covid. john: tim kaine, the senator proved i-95 is the great equalizer, everybody gets stuck in the snow. and alexandria ocasio-cortez is proving covid is the great equalizer, anybody can get it. even if you do or don t take precautions. centers for disease control is plagued by messaging issues, and the new isolation guidelines and now the director is failing to provide basic information on covid death data when pressed yesterday.
of the children don t know school before covid. they think it s a place where you go where you have plexiglass next to you and a mask on. so these are very real problem and $2.5 billion was designated for mental health problems across the country. i don t know where the many went, but recognize the reality of the mental health problem. it s not going to go away when the final bout of covid passes, it s going to be with the kids an entire generation and we need to look at it and face it had ed on, a the first lady, one of the highest profile teachers in the country needs to talk about it. sandra: and one high schooler said they have friends, telling them they want to quit, they have fallen behind, feel helpless, their parents cannot help them, they are working two
teachers union continue to disagree on covid protocols. that s as medical experts warn about the true toll the pandemic is having on american students. more on all of this, a lot of people are up sit, gillian. american academy of pediatrics and others have declared a national state of emergency in children s mental health caused by covid. the c.d.c. is reporting a dramatic rise in adolescent e.r. visits for mental health crisis. grief, anxiety, depression, children have endured assault of the closures and forced isolation is now boiling over. one mother tells fox news her high school son behavior changed during his month, the months his school was shut down. he was failing, he fell into a deep depression, not a lot of communication between us. he was wandering, pacing, really almost it was not a good
over its own pandemic strategy, cases skyrocketing and impact well beyond americans who are already vaccinated. he is going to give an update to the country on thursday where things stand, and we ll be looking to see if the white house has anything new to say when the briefing gets underway any moment now. sandra. sandra: we ll be watching for it. mark meredith, thank you. john: jonathan turley, let s get to what you say will be a major political and legal blow in a second. but let me ask you about what happened on friday in the supreme court arguments over whether or not the vaccine mandate was constitutional or not. and justice sotomayor said this about the number of people, specifically children, ill with covid. we have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. we have over 100,000 children