those aggressive steps as well. polo sandoval, thank you so much. now i bring in dr. peter hotez from the baylor school of medicine. hi, dr. hotez. nice to see you. let s begin with this week s return to the classroom. i can tell you from my experience as a mom, we had a whole text chain with parents saying, what is this upcoming week going to look like? a lot of parents aren t sure what to think about sending their kids back to school this week. what advice do you have? pamela, the parents aren t the only ones, same with the medical professionals. we haven t had to deal with omicron in the schools yet. as bad as delta was, it s not the same as omicron whose trance m