vaccinated. they don t want the white house to play in science, they do have to communicate in science. you see that every day in the press briefing and i m sure the president will get questions about it today even though he s scheduled to talk about drug pricing. monica alba is posted outside the white house. we any there s a covid briefing in about 2 1/2 hours from now. we ve got other news breaking this hour as we come on the air, four minutes ago, that hhs has this new vaccine for its workforce. talk to us about the new headlines coming out of the white house. reporter: it s notable because we re starting to see a pattern emerge here. hhs will require 25,000 of its health care workers to be vaccinated. this is not something where we re looking at to show proof of vaccination or submit to rigorous testing. this is going a step beyond that and saying you have to get the shots and show us, because these are health care workers.
choice, saying they re evaluating the situation every day. but for parents who are sending their kids to school with a mask on, the problem is once their kid is through those doors, there s nothing she can do from there. it s out of her hands. and to your question about how sick kids are getting, i m hearing from the doctors here, they re seeing children in the icus, they re seeing children on ventilators, which is not something that they had been seeing prior to the last couple of weeks. they re terrified of what s coming as kids get into the school system. no quarantine, no masks, no social distancing, kids on ventilators. the picture is a lot different in california, where governor newsom today is set to announce that all teachers and school employees must get vaccinated or submit to rigorous testing. how big of an impact is this going to have on keeping schools safe? reporter: look, i think it s important to get more people vaccinated, and certainly getting the teachers vaccina
topic, but they were waiting to see if that approval would come before that. so this is a fatigue rating. so we would like for the service members to be vaccinated four to six weeks from now which of course is the time we know it takes for them to be fully effective in terms of immunity. it was the white house just a couple weeks ago that laid out these new rules for federal workers and the civilians more than two million of them that have to get the vaccination or submit to rigorous testing. this would be a different step, it appears and we re waiting for confer ration at our team for all of the details on how this would work. this is something we believed was coming down the pipe we heard the president talk about it. he has been monitoring the rise
on this friday. a busy friday. a lot of news. i m sure you everywhere watching the channel last night. lock down concerns loom over the biden administration as the president makes his push to vaccinate everybody in america who can get the shot. rachel: that s right. this is as republicans march maskless in defiance of speaker pelosi s rules. brian: chaos reigns supreme. griff i say your name with a question mark. griff: are you ready to go down to lockdowns? yesterday at the white house they weren t ruling it out saying they will listen to the science and the cdc. watch. we listened to the cdc and the experts and their guidance. you know, the cdc is a body that is very well respected and we again, we follow their find dance. the president announcing now every federal government employee a contractor must show proof of vaccination or face rigorous testing.
kins. in just a few hours they announce a federal vaccine requirement. what more do we know about this? they are laying out essentially a choice for more than two million federal workers. they will have to prove they are fully vaccinated to go to work or submit to what the white house is calling rigorous testing. we don t really know the details of what that kmoent means. will it be weekly? on site? it is expected that we will get all of this. it will be modelled after the local level. this is the choice that you have and here is the time frame you have to get vaccinated or you will have to social distance, potentially continue to wear