For the safe upcoming school year. Now, earlier at the White House today, the covid Response Team released new numbers showing that 83 of all counties in the country are reporting a substantial or high transmission rate. And this is all counties. But theres also a spike in vaccinations. 864,000 over the last 24 hours, the most in more than month. Clearly americans are seeing the impact of being unvaccinated and unprotected. And the response is doing their part by rolling up the sleeve and getting vaccinated. And that is where we start with heidi prybylia, and the director of the national Preparedness Leonard and also our national correspondent on health, and so i apologize ahead of time if i have to cut you off with the speaker who makes it to the podium. What did we learn, heidi . Well, he is clearly concerned with the politics of the parents who wont go along with it. The administration is through a number of pediatricians, and the american academy of pediatricians working in concert
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