important. do you think that public opinion has shifted? and so there have been very few general surgeon advisories. like cigarettes cause cancer. breastfeeding is good for kids. what we say duh. but this is like a period of at the end of the sentence. and we see some kind of big change. so at least when it comes to i had cansmental health, i m opt mits ta optimistic that we ll see something about. and you say that things happen slowly. looking at the surgeon jen, it
dying from covid is 50% higher as you can see there in states that voted for donald trump than states that voted for joe biden. why, you ask? consider this. according to kaiser family foundation poll, four in ten republicans remain unvaccinated, compared to about one in ten democrats. joe biden s former covid response adviser said it is time for gop leaders really to step up. have a listen. the message to you they re sending is not what they should be doing which is ideally standing shoulder to shoulder with the president saying this is bad everywhere. we can fight about anything we want to in politics. we can argue over anything. none of us want anybody to die. for a party not willing to lift its finger to help fight the pandemic, they re going to a great deal of effort to fight people who are fighting the pandemic. and that just doesn t make sense. and so they should partner up here because people in their own communities as you just said are the ones paying the heavy price. well
well, if the covid vaccine is authorized for young children, the u.s. surgeon jen says more states will likely mandate vaccinations for students in the coming school year. take a listen. part of the reason you re going to see states move in that direction post authorization is because we all want our kids to go back to school, to be able so stay in school, and to be safe. and many people out there think that covid is not a big deal for kids, we shouldn t really worry about it. but i will tell you, we have lost hundreds of children to covid. thousands have been hospitalized, and we could prevent a lot of this with a safe and effective vaccine. well, meanwhile, florida state board of education has voted to sanction eight of its school districts for not allowing parents to opt out of mask mandates. in addition to docking the pay of school board members, the board commission recommends that the state withhold further money to grants by the biden administration. superintendents from tho
always going to try to advocate what s best for children. reporter: the mask wore update in texas, a couple with an immunocompromised kid at home went out for dinner, and she came up and basically said, you are going to need to pull your mask down, take it off, because this is a political situation. but the owner here doesn t believe in masks and, you know, there is a strict no-mask policy here. reporter: so they had to leave. i spent my money on this business. i put my blood, sweat and tears in this business. i don t want any masks in here. reporter: in florida the no mask wearing surgeon jen was the man for the job. he wrote that mask wearing has had at best a moderate affect on transmission. not true. studies show the effect is significant. meantime, the nation s average daily death toll just topped
i suspect what s going to happen is we ll continue to collect data on this cohort, 65 and over, and other people who are made eligible. and eventually the agency may walk down the authorization to younger age cohorts depending on what they learn from the data set here in the united states. the cdc and fda have already okayed third doses for immunocompromised people. in florida there is a new surgeon jen in charge of the state and he s already relaxing health precautions in schools. originally the palm beach school board had required masks in schools. now it is reversing course after the state issued a new rule allowing parents to send their kids back to school if they ve been exposed to covid as long as they have no symptoms. remember, the cdc says people can spread covid two days before they are symptomatic. the new surgeon jen has changed the decision so now we ve modified our policy to meet the new decision.