eligible to get the vaccine also tested positive in florida. back to you. >> thank you for that. joining us is dr. sanchez, assistant professor and primary care pediatrician at columbia universitier virvine medical center. thank you for joining us. i think this is a doom's day scenario for parents. parents have always been petrified that their children would get a severe case. so i think the first question is for masks, are masks totally necessary to send kids back to school in a healthy way? >> 100% necessary. and i can't even believe that we're here having this debate. at this point we have studies from country after country that have shown us that we can do this safely if we space our kids out, if we mask them up, if we do some testing. and i just -- i truly can't believe, you would think that the goal would be to have everyone back in school to keep them in school without the back and forth that we've seen last