of massachusetts and utah and they did a study looking at half a million kids in massachusetts comparing students three and six feet apart. there are a lot of caveats. in areas of high transmission, they want to keep the high school and junior high school at six feet apart. let s say where there is a choir or singing, you want to increase that. the most important part to mention about these guidelines it depends on a lot of things. first of all, the amount of ventilation in a classroom. if you have a poorly ventilated classroom, even six feet may not be enough, certainly not if you are not wearing masks. also, in terms of getting teachers vaccinated, there is also the issue around level of community transmission as well. we have to be careful not to stick everything at the boiler plate of three feet or six feet. we will be talking to you later, but we wanted to start out with the breaking news and we will update that through the hour. president biden and vice president
anita: meanwhile, doctors mystified by an outbreak of severe liver disease in kids. they have no idea where it came from, and now that the disease has killed at least one child, there is a global effort to find out what is causing it. alexis mcadams is joining us live with more. what more can you tell us? parents are talking about this nonstop trying to figure out what they should do with this. u.k. health officials we have been talking with believe covid-19 lockdowns could lead to the hepatitis cases because the kids have lowered immune systems, but they think it s the adenovirus. detected around 74 of those cases tested for this. but it is a very unusual, it s unusual for an adenovirus to cause this type of severe
believe many. it s almost a play on where we go one we go all qanon motto which is it is more about community, it s about the demand for disinformation and the quest to create a real i have that conforms to what they want. i think there is deep psychological research we have to look at in terms of how that plays out with confirmation bias and implicit bias on social media. let me put up full scene number 8. among these folks nearly 40% believe a covid vaccine contains a microchip. 85% believe covid was manufactured in a lab. you know, brendan buck, there s always a debate about whether donald trump is the cause or he s just the inevitable result of what was festering for years. where do you come down on that? a bit of both, but i definitely think that he is a symptom of something bigger that was going on, but you still