considering similar measures as well. now alexander field takes a closer look at how this changing rules could affect your family. reporter: some democratic governors making dramatic shifts as the country impatiently awaits an exit plan. the statewide school mask mandate will be lifted. reporter: new jersey s governor announcing the end of mask mandates in schools as of march 7th. and as of friday, lifting the mask mandate for schools at the end of march. while governors in connecticut and new york have signals they could soon ease restrictions. in a couple weeks, maybe removing the masks is the right thing to do. it allows to us people off one of the restrictions that has been so controversial. reporter: the steps even in the absence of clear federal guidance on how or when to do that. what i think governors are sensing is that we need to agree on seat of metrics. when we will roll back these mitigation steps and give people a light at the end of the
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numbers for kids are still low. how do we boost vaccination rates among children, especially looking to child vaccination rates dropping the school mask mandate. i see california is one in three kids have been vaccinated. it s going to be really important. and obviously there s a big space for that conversation. i m a pediatrician. pediatricians talk to parents and kids all the time. but we also, i think, need to talk to each other. there s so much misinformation out there. going to help for particularly people with kids to learn the facts and be able to communicate about them effectively with their peers. johns hopkins has a free online course to train vaccine ambassadors to talk to parents and it walks through how to hear about concerns people have.
governors that are beginning to lift or change their mask mandates. on monday we heard from the governors of connecticut, oregon, new jersey and delaware all saying within a matter of weeks mask mandates in schools are going to go. here is what they had to say yesterday. because of the dramatic decline in our covid numbers effective monday march 7th. the statewide school mask mandate will be lifted. this is a huge step back to normalcy. my recommendation is that we end the statewide mask mandate. i think this is something we have earned, connecticut. we have earned it. meantime in virginia the new republican governor glenn youngkin the man on the screen defending executive order which allows parents to decide if they want their kids to wear masks in school. on monday, the virginia state supreme court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the executive order but there are other cases pending and just last week a judge blocked the executive order from being enforced. we are hearing fro
massive mandate because democratic donors fly on those planes. so they re exempt. the tsa, by the way, announced in august that the airline mandate would remain in place at least through march 18th. congress had no role in this. congress voted to spend trillions of dollars on covid tn relief, but nobody in the congress ever voted on a mandate for masksd o on airplans . will we have it forever? i don t know. you ve been taking your shoes off since richard reid tried to ignite his twenty years ago. no one ever voted on that either. none of this is democracy, not when they make you take your shoes off, not when they make you cover your face. thosert decisions are too important for you to weigh in on. it s not democracy. soe the pandemic is over . but people like kathy hochul still have emergency powers and school boards due toch their acting like they have complete power over your childrenr yo. in naperville, illinois, court just issued a restraining order againstt governor pritzker, a st
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