particularly for students and even more so for younger students. let me explain. we ve been talking about this idea for some time. it s now official from the cdc. but they re specifically saying for all students, elementary school students, they can maintain just three feet apart when mask use is universal regardless of what is happening with community transmission. that s for elementary school students. so that s going to be a big deal. but they also say, kate, that for middle school and high school students, they should still maintain at least six feet apart if the community tr transmission in their community is high. so making a difference between older and younger students. for all elementary schools, regardless where you live in the country, guidance is now going to be three feet. but if you happen to live in a community where community transmission is high still, at about 41% roughly of counties in the united states do have high transmission, if you live in one of those
Embarrassing admission and keeping it out of the printed edition. do you think that s true? we have no way of knowing this. they say they ran out of space. they say they had to cut this for space constraints. and i used to work there. i know the stories do get trimmed for space all the time, but i see it in your eyes there. obviously, this is an important admission. to take it out of the story for space concerns raises additional questions about the sensibility of their editors. but if they re willing to admit that they cut something that important out of a story for space, if they re willing to admit to that kind of error, i guess we have to take them at their word. it deserves its own story. i do want to say what we know about obama is that, a, he has often talked about how he doesn t watch cable news. what we also know about obama is that he tends to try to be the cool head in the room when things when emergencies happen and people are getting very emotional on televisio