but to be incredibly pragmatic, if you are seeing loved ones, you have people in your household that can t get vaccinated under 5, immunocompromised, wear a high quality mask. it doesn t prevent anything, but it will protect you. airplanes when they re moving have pretty darn good ventilation because of what they do for filtration and air circulation. buses. transit. places like that can get really crowded really quick. either avoid those situations and do what i do. wear a high quality masks. i m always traveling with extra in my bag and if you re seeing something that s immunocompromised and you re about to make a trip, make sure you re on time with your boosters. get them before you make these big trips. i want people to have a normal life, but you have to remember that there are ten million plus people who are paralyzed by this. i had a liver transplant patient
sun belt, like idaho, which saw record deaths this week. icu nurse krista murphy is tired of hearing people saying they don t want to wear a mask. makes me feel awful, like they don t care about what we re going through here. they don t care about the people that are admitted to the hospital, whose families can t come and see them, and are terrified. reporter: in new jersey, transmission rates are now higher than they were in april. look, the numbers are setting off alarms that we are taking that we take very seriously. reporter: police there are looking for a woman at this staples store who they say assaulted a liver transplant patient, allegedly over a mask. the suspect grabbing the victim s cane, throwing that woman to the ground, breaking her leg, all because she was asked to wear a mask. and tonight, the challenge for so many schools trying to safely reopen. today in georgia, the first wave of students back in school with new safety rules, but masks are not required. i