parents about covid cases in the schools. my executive producer made the point that school tells parents when the kid has lice and lice doesn't kill anybody. the texas thing i was just talking to mayor adler about is bordering on ridiculous. >> public health crisis and public health emergency we need transparency for everything else. we need communication every day among all parts of society. and parents, in particular, need to be informed with what is happening with their kids. here is a time when we have to work together and we have to communicate as effectively as possible and we have to protect kids who don't have the choice if they're under 12. that's the situation we're seeing too often across the country right now. >> dr. koh, a lot of government policy leadership positions. assistant secretary at the department of health and overseen several public health official offices and dealt with the h1n1 pandemic.