Young to be vaccinated masking is the most effective strategy for preventing transmission in schools. Their data shows, quote, more than 7,000 children and adults acquired the coronavirus attended school while infectious because of close contact with those cases more than 40,000 people required quarantine through contact tracing and testing, however, we found only 363 additional children and adults acquired the coronavirus. We believe this low rate of transmission occurred because of the maskon mask school environment, both the infected person and close contact wore masks. In other words, there s a less than 1% chance of passing covid on to a peer or adult in school if universal masking is in place. This is sound research from reputable health experts but then again so is this. On the same day, another article was published prominently on the home page of the wall street journal with this headline, the case against masks against children, it s abusive to force kids who struggle to sacr
And follows a single person. Huh? is this you, ted? republicans are facing a make or break moment. Get behind the science of masks and vaccines or reap the consequences of a resurgent pandemic that is happening right now. Governor ron desantis has made his choice on masks in florida, now threatening to withhold pay for educators if they try to protect their school kids. You heard that right. It seems twisted. But that is what is happening with the desantis variant in florida. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 10th. Joe will be back tomorrow. But willie, let s get right to the news and there s a lot of it. Yeah, the numbers are spiking again, mika. A tally confirms the u. S. Now has passed 36 million cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic and for the first time since february, the country is averaging more than 100,000 new cases per day. Fuelled largely by infections in areas with low vaccination rates. In some parts of the country hospitals ar
21st century jim crow assault is real. It s unrelenting. We re going to challenge it vigorously. [ applause ] while this broad assault against voting right s not unprecedented, it s taking on new forms. It s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It s about who gets to count the vote. Who gets the count whether or not your vote counted at all. To me, this is simple. It s election subversion. It s the most dangerous threat to voting in the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. Never before decided who gets to count, count what votes count. Some want to make it harder to vote. If you vote, they want to tell you your vote doesn t count for any reason they make up. They want the ability to reject the final count and ignore the will of the people if their preferred candidate lose sz. A simple target, who did not vote for them. That s the target. It s unconsciousable. It s hard to it s hard to clear just how critical this is. It
For months he s been teeing the possibility of making another white house bid, and it s certainly causing other high profile republicans to tread carefully among growing speculation over who could potentially pick up the mantel if the former president decides against running in 2024. Casey stegall is live at cpac in dallas with a look at all the action going on this weekend so far. Casey? reporter: yeah, eric. And there is an awful lot of it. You know, this is really a who s who of prominent conservatives. You really never know who you going to bump into when you re walking out in the hallways here. We want to now take you inside one of the ballrooms and show you live pictures of a session that just got underway, one of the many special workshops planned here. It s called are the leftovers from the pandemic here to stay, and it is being led by congresswoman jody hice of georgia. Former national security adviser ambassador robert o brien is on deck giving remarks in about 45 minutes or
Rachel camposduffy. Will: back for a sequel and permanent seat between pete and i on the weekends. Rachel: i m excited to be here again. Will: great to have you. Rachel: that was called the weekend vibe? pete: i look forward to the weekend. I don t know but guys. It s work but it s good to look forward to work. Right? will: yeah. Pete: better than being like this is the weekend. It s terrible. Will: sleeping in is overrated. Rachel: i disagree with that one. Can t agree with you on that one. Pete: we re really glad you are here. Join us for the fourhour tour this morning. We begin with disturbing news this morning. Part of a trend of violence in the city. Shots fired, murder, petty crimes, whatever it is. Not just here in new york city but across the country. There is one video, it s on the cover of the new york post this morning as well it says this is nyc now. The video is disturbing. We re going to show it to you. If you have got kids nearby you might not want them to see it. It is