Three Educators In One Florida County Die In 24 Hours, Tied To Covid

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Three educators in Florida's Broward County have recently died in 24 hours, with causes of death being tied to covid. All the educators were under 50, all unvaccinated and all worked with kids under 12 years of age. In Mississippi, three schools have closed after a covid breakout. A "deeply concerned" Biden administration singles out Texas and Florida governors as they double down on mask mandate bans. A children's hospital in Alabama is treating a record number of patients, five are on ventilators. Current patients nearly double the previous record high. Dallas County says they have no available pediatric ICU beds left. A Georgia school district now has 550 covid cases. Employees must be vaccinated and tested weekly for a Los Angeles' school district. Child covid cases surge 675 percent from July to August. According to a report, more than 10,000 students and staff are exposed and currently in quarantine across 14 states. U.S. troops are on their way to Afghanistan to help evacuate personnel, after the Taliban now controls half of the provincial capitals. The White House has been caught off guard by the speed of the Taliban's advance as more cities fall. According to a poll, 62 percent of Americans approve of the troops withdrawal decision. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	Out front next, the Biden administration tonight taking the fight over school mask mandates
0:35.5	straight to the two Republican governors in Florida and Texas.
0:39.0	This says three teachers in Broward County, Florida are dead from COVID and two others now hospitalized.
0:45.2	Plus, Dr. Fauci says even the vaccinated are in danger of getting the debilitating symptoms of long COVID.
0:50.8	Question you've all had. So why and why are some more susceptible than others? Dr. Sanjay
0:55.9	Gupta with a special report and our guest tonight, the mayor of Topeka, tells us about having
1:01.0	her gallbladder removed and a pacemaker put in all because of long COVID. She's 45. And it's
1:07.0	August 13th. Why the conspiracy theorists were wrong about this date and so many others.
1:11.9	Let's go out front.
1:15.4	And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, struggling to keep America's children safe from COVID.
1:21.7	Three teachers in the same school district died in the span of 24 hours and two more hospitalized. This is all happening in Broward
1:29.3	County, Florida. Right now, ground zero for the fight against that state's governor's attempt to ban
1:35.2	mask mandates in schools. The school board has defied Governor Ron DeSantis as he continues to
1:40.9	threaten to cut funding and salaries. The school board has kept the mask mandate in place.
1:46.8	And that's really important because all three of the teachers who died were unvaccinated.
1:52.0	And all of them were set to teach kids who are too young to get vaccinated.
1:58.4	Look, as there's a mother of three children, two in school, I'll be blunt and honest
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