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<b>News 12</b>'s Rich Barrabi was joined by Dr. Sharon Nachman to talk about masks in schools. 

News 12's Rich Barrabi was joined by Dr. Sharon Nachman to talk about masks in schools.

Bronx

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Into news. 12 New York for your weather too because we're gonna have a lot of updates coming up over the next couple of days as we are on storm watch, heading towards the weekend, rain is gonna be an issue. Let's check in with storm watch teams. Hoo sei right now to find out how much of an issue it's gonna be. Yeah, Kurt, you know, we're dealing with the rain and we're also dealing with the high wind. So here's the top stories through the weekend. So we're dealing with a nice warm up. That's something that you can enjoy. In the meantime, Friday and Saturday, Gusty storms are to follow on our Sunday and then falling temperatures by Monday. So let's get into the next couple of days high as tomorrow near 48 degrees, 55 on, on Saturday and then 61 on Sunday. But look where those temperatures crash mid to upper forties on our Monday and even cooler by the midweek. But again, we're talking about the rain. That's why we are on storm watch. Again. We're tracking some steady rainfall arriving Sunday afternoon and even taking us into Monday morning. So let's time it out on your future Cast Sunday, it is gonna start off dry. Then we see those temperatures climbing into the upper fifties. Low sixties, some light rain start then a random and, and then it starts to pick up in intensity by the evening hours. So this is around midnight. You're seeing temperatures still near 60 degrees and you're seeing the darker shades of green and yellow, good indicated for some soaking rain And even the high winds will start picking up in intensity through this time frame. But look how quickly those temperatures crash from the sixties to the mid forties by Monday morning. Even though that the rain is pushing out of here, we're still gonna be dealing with some standing water and some gusty winds. So your Monday morning commute will still be impacted Monday afternoon. It is drier temperatures in the mid to upper forties, even cooler by Monday evening. But again, back to those high winds, 40 to 50 MPH really going to be any concern as well as the rain. We're talking about 1 to 2.5 inches of rainfall. It's all good and I don't mean Rainbow.

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Connecticut

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We have some interesting weather developing over the next few days, changing seasons, basically. And by the time we get to Sunday, it's going to be warmer but rainy and windy. So much rain, about 2 to 3 inches could fall that that may lead to some flooding. We may also have some damaging winds. Winds could gust as high as about 50 miles an hour and that's enough to possibly cause some power outages. So make sure all your devices are charged that knock down or destroy some of those holiday decorations. So please secure the objects outside your home if you can before Sunday. And then we want to watch the coast for some title flooding during our high tide cycle coming in Sunday into Monday. Now, tomorrow it's a chilly start to the morning but a better finish. Much warmer by the afternoon, winds are generally, I don't foresee any major issues on the roads due to the weather. Enjoy the day because it's quiet temperatures in the forties. So you still need some nice warm layers, but you really don't need the heavy duty winter coat. You will need the umbrellas and all that rain gear. Waking up Monday morning from that storm coming in late Sunday, temperatures are going to crash after that. Highs back into the forties and lows in the twenties next week.

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Hudson Valley

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Well, the weekend I could smell it already Addison. But so is the storm that's brewing right on the horizon? What are we looking at in terms of those weekend plans? Is it gonna be a washout? Thankfully not Nikita, I think uh weekend plans should go on. No problems whatsoever for Saturday, Sunday. Not so much, right? Not so much. Let me just go ahead and step aside. You can see what I'm talking about because Sunday right here is something to stand out as a day that we have to be maybe staying inside versus going out and about especially for the evening hours, 100% chance right there for seeing rain Saturday though dry, I think even Saturday night as well. First part of Sunday before noon, I think dry as well. Then after that all bets are off for you trying to stay dry and be outside because here is what you can be expecting for Sunday to Monday. A storm system moving on this way, giving us batches of moder to heavy rain at times, gusts could go 30 to 50 plus MPH. So there may be some isolated flood concerns depending upon where you are in the Hudson Valley area. Those usual lowly air, they get a little bit of some rain can sometimes see some flooding. Yeah, you know those spots. So moving towards your Futurecast 930 in the morning on Sunday, since Saturday will be gorgeous. Let's go towards Sunday. We start the day off with partly to mostly cloudy skies. There's a system in question coming on in from the west going towards lunchtime, still looking pretty good. Just have rain showers just on our doorstep afterwards though, towards 2 to 4 o'clock, here comes the rain light to moderate at first, just more scattered showers than anything else. But see these yellow lines, those are called Isobars lines of equal pressure. The more of them we have and we're closely tight to get tacked together, shows us a strong windfield. We're gonna be seeing wind gusts coming out of a south westerly direction around 20 to 30 MPH sustained gusts going higher than that toss in some moderate to heavy downpours and may get some brief gusts of 40 to 50 plus MPH that time frame right there towards three o'clock in the morning or so. Our system starts to pull away from us after Monday morning's commute, but we can still nonetheless deal with some gusts going on in towards o'clock. You see 3040 plus MPH, even maybe some spots close to 50 as you look out there for that rainfall potential. It's gonna be adding on up, maybe about 1 to 2 injuries or so. But we're gonna be seeing on storm system that's all the way on the west coast head over this way over time. But for the time being, it's just cold out there, we have to deal with temperatures running a little bit below average for the rest of the night. Tomorrow starts improving and then we see temperatures in the fifties and rising after that with the rain chances as well.

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Long Island

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Ok. Ok. We've got some, uh, kind of ugly stuff moving in but the weekend's gonna be kind of warm most of it for most of it, which is the good takeaway from this is that we are looking for majority of the next few days to be fine. It's just really gonna be our Sunday afternoon and evening hours where we're gonna have to just be weather aware. So what we need to know we're looking at Friday. Not bad. It's gonna actually be a warmer start to a trend that's gonna get even better. By the time we get into our Saturday, Saturday, we're still on the dry end. Temperatures will start to warm into the middle fifties and then Sunday, we're going to be near 60 degrees if not at the 60 degree mark. But that's also when we're gonna be looking at the storm system to move in from a Sunday afternoon into our Monday morning. So around at dinner time or even early into our afternoon is when we're gonna be anticipating to see some rain from the storm system to move its way across to Long Island. Now, early parts of our Sunday, it's mainly going to be light rain. But as we get to the overnight transitioning into early Monday morning, heavy rainfall is going to start to develop for us just into around the five o'clock mark, which is going to lead into our early Monday morning. So we could see between 1 to 2 inches of rainfall by the time the event is over with and gusty winds from 30 to 40 MPH. The good news is though, once we're into our Monday afternoon, it looks to clear up for us, but until we get there overnight, it's partly cloudy cold conditions, temperatures just a degree or two below freezing or at the freezing point. Again, Friday and Saturday, you're not gonna need the heavy coats but still gonna be nice and chilly. At least until we get into our Saturday, quiet conditions heading into our Friday for us. Plenty of sunshine, cloud cover will move in for Saturday and then for Sunday into Monday, we're gonna be monitoring that storm system.

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New Jersey

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Back in my day. All right, let's see where the forecast is headed. As we go into the weekend, we've got rain. We have wind and a lot of it. Now, the timing of it is going to be critical. Most of the storminess that we're anticipating for Sunday is going to happen very late Sunday night into early Monday morning, the weekend is salvageable. Saturday is great and warm. We just see a little bit more cloud coverage. The first part of Sunday, up until about maybe three, four o'clock in the afternoon should be dry. Then the showers start and become steadier and heavier when all is said and done. We're likely going to pick up between 1 to 2 inches of rain in our rain gauges and a lot of that is going to happen very quickly and then the winds are picking up also. So it's a wind driven rain and if we do approach wind gusts of 4045 maybe even 50 miles an hour and it lasts for a couple of hours occasionally hitting those gusts, not, it's not gonna be a 34 hour sustained 40 or 50 mile an hour. Wind gust, it's periodically happening, but that's the type of wind that could get the power to flicker from time to time. We're at 39 dropping down to about 32. The opportunity for rain is going to be Sunday night into Monday morning, Saturday is looking great. Sunday afternoon is ok. It's cloudy but you'll be able to feel it in the air that the rain is certainly going to be building. So for tonight, temperatures, twenties and thirties with just a few clouds around Friday is gorgeous with sunshine. Temperatures are back up into the upper forties. We look at the extended forecast and as I mentioned, Saturday is warm but clouds are building Sunday morning, early Sunday afternoon, cloudy dry that changes going into Sunday night into early Monday morning. Give yourself a lot of extra time in that Monday morning routine to potentially deal with some travel headaches, getting wherever you go, the rain and the wind are gone for next week, the sunshine is back out but the cold that returns with morning lows in the twenties and thirties, daytime highs in the lower forties.

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The New Normal: Should we ditch masks in schools?

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dr Nachman, let's get right to it. Big headlines in New Jersey Connecticut, some other states across the country as well coming out now regarding masks in schools. You see the numbers going down, where do you stand on the issue of face coverings and schools right now. So I think it's very exciting to see the numbers going down that tells us that the american surge has really pretty much ended. However, we have to be a bit cautious. Remember this is a highly infectious virus. So if we take off the masks a little too early we may see another mini surge because those people who have not yet gotten covid well in fact get covid, do we need another few weeks or a few days? The answer is I don't know. I think right now this very minute it maybe a little too soon. Four weeks from now sounds perfectly appropriate to me. We'll have enough numbers will have seen any more little blips of infections and that will tell us we're safe to take off our masks dr knock manure. Someone who is looking at the numbers on a daily basis and you're not beholden to residents to voters right? You're able to just give us an assessment based on the science, which is not the case for governors and others across the country based on the numbers you're seeing, does this seem like the right move to you? I think it's definitely in the right direction. I think when we hit new infections that are less than 1%. That sounds like it's about the right time to take off our masks, be it in school at work places at other places, but we have to be prepared to very, very closely follow what happens next. I want to remind you though, the reason that we're able to even consider taking off our masks is because those new infections that are And people who have been vaccinated means they don't come to the hospital and that's really why we're able to say let's consider taking off our masks. Why do I worry? I worry about the kids in school are vaccination rate of the 5 to 12 year olds is only about 30, That means that they are at extreme risk for getting covid as well as getting the multi system inflammatory disease as well as coming to the hospital with their infections. So I think we have to balance getting those kids vaccinated with the goal to actually getting their masks off. Okay, so let's fast forward here and say, we're looking at a classroom now where it becomes optional and say the majority of students decide their parents decide you no longer have to mask up in class, but there are other parents are going to say let's play it safe, let's keep the masks on. So my question for you, dr Nachman is do those Children still have protection even if it does become a mixed environment, some masks on, some masks off. Certainly those Children will still have some level of protection, particularly if they've been vaccinated as well. I want to remind families that this is something that your parent must discuss with the child's pediatrician and do what is in the best interest for their child. There are many Children out there that have immune compromising states and their parents may decide that even if the mask mandate is done, their Children will still wear some wear masks. We should not be mask shaming those families. We should respect those parents authority and say if their kid is going to school with a mask, that's okay. You hear a lot of people who are on the side of the issue who have said, listen, we're not necessarily against you wearing a mask. We're just against the choice, everybody should be able to see what they do for school or for work or for wherever they're going in the morning. But to that end in general public settings now, not necessarily in school. Should we take the removal of mandates to mean it is safe to go in public indoors without a face covering. I think it really depends on who you are, What medication you're on and what is your underlying medical issues. I think that for most people it's probably going to be safe. I assume they have been vaccinated and particularly that they have been boosted, but if you're talking about an 80 year old who has high blood pressure diabetes, perhaps some other medical issues and has never been vaccinated or not boosted. It's not going to be safe for them. So really these broad strokes of mask, Yes, mask no, really need to be decided on a person to person level. Who are you, what are your medical problems? How old are you and particularly have you been vaccinated and boosted all of that is part of the answer as to should I wear a mask where I'm going or should I not? I want to read you an interesting tweet that came from the former U. S surgeon general under president trump. This is from jerome Adams and here's what he wrote quote. I respectfully disagree with many of my colleagues who are espousing the idea that prematurely dropping mask mandates will somehow make it easier to bring them back if or when things get worse again. How'd that work out when the CDC said vaccinated could unmask last summer? It's an interesting point. Doctor knocked minute comes from the former surgeon general. Here, are you concerned that if this is done in a premature manner, should there be a situation down the line where we see a new spike? It may be that much more difficult to get public buy in on the issue of face coverings again? Of course it's going to be difficult once people are unmasked to go back to wearing a mask. That idea that, oh, we're free. We're good. We don't need a mask. It's going to be very hard to overcome that. On the other hand, there are many things in life that we've had to pivot on. Should we go on a trip or not go on a trip? What should we do for christmas? We've all had to pivot with difficult decisions. I respect the american public and appreciate that they are going to listen to the science. And if the science shows us another variant, just like american sweeping through our schools, our communities that we may need to mask for a short time, I suspect that they will follow suit. Everyone knows that we are part of the same community and our goal is to protect not only ourselves but each other and wearing a mask. If there is another surge, maybe just part of that. So do you think what we're talking about now in the public discourse and what we're seeing some of these elected officials announced indicates that we're going to learn to live with this thing. We're not gonna get rid of it. We're going to learn to live with it one way or another. Is that your takeaway? Absolutely. We want to move from pandemic, which means brand new virus. None of us have seen before to endemic. Similar to flu. We have bouts every year. We would like people to get vaccinated, be safe, stay home if you're sick And get back to regular living. I think it is going to move to the endemic phase. And if you think about what happened to the 1917 flew, it was the same thing two years and then it moved to endemic. We're going to be in the same boat. So what I'd like to ask you then also on the issue of vaccines and boosters is as we start to take away some of these safeguards, how do you ensure that folks still understand the importance of getting vaccinated and getting boosted? Because as you know, there are many who still have not done so, especially in younger ages. Well, I'm hoping that they're going to be listening to the science. I'm hoping they're going to be looking around and noticing that 900,000 Americans have died from COVID in the past two years. We don't want to add to those numbers. So yes, it means taking responsibility for yourself and getting the vaccine and getting boosted and also taking responsibility for your family and your colleagues if you're sick, stay home Lastly for you personally, would you feel comfortable out in a public setting? Say a supermarket? Maybe it's a bigger setting like a concert or a sporting event without a mask. I think it really depends over the next two weeks. What the numbers do if they plateau and stay at that 1% or even less. Certainly going to the supermarket. I don't have a problem. Not wearing a mask in a very public area, like an arena where you're in an enclosed space with thousands of other people that you don't know. Maybe not yet. I think it really depends on who you are and where you're going and how crowded that area is. I have been boosted, I've been vaccinated and I'm relying on those protections to also keep me safe.

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