care of patients who are presenting to the emergency department with covid. we re falling ill. some of our staff is dying and that s part of the reason why we re having a shortage also. protect your workers. another debate in which politics are trumping what we know about the science here are mandates for kids to wear masks in school. we know the data shows that helps stem the spread and yet in a number of places you had governors ban those mask mandates. now in wisconsin, you have parents suing two school district because their children got infected, right, saying blaming the ban on mask mandates. again, from a public health perspective, based on what we know from the data, do these mandates help keep kids and their families safe? i think they do, jim. you know what s interesting, i looked at one of the lawsuits and one of the parents actually alleges that last school year the school district implemented masking, temperature checks, contact tracing and they actually had plexigla