i will. half my staff either has covid or someone in their family has coronavirus disease. it s so transmissible. my children said today that half of their class wasn t present, and their teacher was absent. yes, i agree with the doctor. you need to get your booster when you can. i agree as well not that i m a doctor, but i agree. child optiizations are at that highest. dr. stanford, what is the best way. it starts with our teachers, cafeteria workers and bus drivers. they have to have been vaccinated and boosted. children who are eligible need to be vaccinated. folks needs to be wearing masks in the classroom, and if you can have outdoor instruction, better ventilation with windows open, then we need to do that.
instrumental in helping to craft the guidance on mask, which makes one wonder, has the c.d.c. become so politicized that it can t change its guidance? you know, john, in this case, speaking to her, i don t think so. i think that she is more worried about another variant coming along and if the guidelines are peeled back, suddenly they get hit again and then it s going to look like they underreacted. now, that may be the wrong approach, too. i think we should stick on where we are going. i think omicron is on its way out, especially in the northeast. so, clearly the governors are making the right decisions here. if you are in an area where there is a tremendous amount of spread in schools you may take a different approach. her approach is mitigating strategies all the way. windows open, ventilation, masks, vaccines and testing. the more the better. john: you have a great editorial that you say omicron could pave the way for the end of the pandemic. but questions whether the masks
and you can feel the air flowing. we had a c02 monitor and we could see the effect of that. just by keeping the effect of that. just by keeping the windows open, we could keep the airflow and luckily nobody got sick. a quick word on testing. schools will now be testing as pupils return. forthe will now be testing as pupils return. for the rest of the population, we know there was concern about a lack of lateral flow tests, a lack of availability of pcr tests, a lack of availability of pcr tests in some parts of the country. how damaging is that in trying to keep a lid on the outbreak? it hasn t been helpful because the public have really got their heads around some important aspect of this outbreak. i think one of the reasons why we have not so far needed further lockdowns beyond what we have had is because people who are doing it anyway, mixing a lot less, getting testing before they go out. so obviously not being able to test over this critical period has not been helpful. it looks l
it. as you said, in schools, testing is going to be happening. my feeling is going to be happening. my feeling is there is going to be a real push to try to keep schools open this time. as the pandemic has gone on, it is clear that younger people have really suffered, and they are not gonna get these years of education back. so it feels like they are going to be a push to keep schools open even if there are large groups of kids in classes. we open even if there are large groups of kids in classes. of kids in classes. we have got a mask wearing of kids in classes. we have got a mask wearing all of kids in classes. we have got a mask wearing all the of kids in classes. we have got a mask wearing all the way i of kids in classes. we have got a| mask wearing all the way through of kids in classes. we have got a i mask wearing all the way through the day in england, how important is that and the other mitigating factors? a r that and the other mitigating factors? a, w ., , that and