kids are getting ready to gook to school in the fall, but if they are under 12, they can t get vaccinated. now, permanently, having covered this for over a year and a half, i think it s clear we have to do whatever we can to get kids back to school in person. that seems a consensus, thankfully. what that means is adults work manager the schools need to get vaccinated. the schools need to take steps to minimize transmission among the children. despite a recommendation by the cdc that kids wear masks we re seeing pressure groups raging against school masking across the country. in fact, it took a judge to stop a ban on mask mandates on schools in arkansas because the republican legislature wouldn t repeal the law despite pleas from their own governor. he said he regretted it. thanks to an executive order from governor desantis.
it for entry and it will become more common, and again, let me repeat, it is the private sector to drive us getting to the finish line here in terms of getting us vaccinated. we have done all we could with the education and incentives and we don t want to go back to the lockdowns and go back to fighting about the school masking and lose our travel and recreational opportunities, we have got to use the vaccination to handle these new variants. and dr. ramirez, how would things be helped along here if the fda would give full authorization to the vaccinations, and the fact that they are under the emergency use authorization still a obstacle as you will see it? yes and no. some opinions put out earlier in the week saying that the vaccines have been shown to be overwhelmingly safe, and enough precedent that the vaccines can be sort of mandated even under the emergency use authorization, and that being said, we are seeing the folks including the defense department and folks in