masking is important. vaccinations for everybody eligible. that s important. better ventilation if possible and then testing. is there anything more that schools can do to make schools even safer, assuming they re doing those four things, and i don t know that every school is, but assuming they are, is there more that can be done so teachers and faculty can feel comfortable about schools staying open? those are clearly the big ones. we ve seen some school districts that started going in a bifurcatedstyle skl to put down on the number of people in the building at a time. the less population density, the safe sler. that gets into issues of ventalation, but those are the big things. as we ve known even pre-omicron if you have those things in place, you can arguably create a very safe environment. so there s a veteran friend of mine and he lives in a rather impoverished part of the country and has a kid who is immunocompromised. the school district apparently does not have the ability
secured. they ll likely be signed by the end of the week but there is no guarantee that those will be available to be sent out this month. perhaps at the end of the month or beginning of next month. for all that s going on, testing remains one of the central challenges of this administration. the president said so today himself. jeff zeleny, thanks. appreciate it. in new york, the city s new mayor says he ll not feed into the, quote, hysteria around the rising covid case numbers after he rejected the city s largest teachers union s request to temporarily move to remote learning. as long as vaccines, masking, ventalation and testing are all part of the education process, medical experts do agree there is a steep price to keeping kids out of the classroom. as cnn s alexandra field reports. we cannot feed into hysteria. this is traumatizing our children. reporter: facing an unprecedented covid surge in new york city s new mayor insisting schools really are the safest place for child