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WEN: "Yeah, I generally agree with dr. Gottlieb. I agree that masks are a very powerful layer of protection. But it's one layer. And if we have so many other layers that are present, masking may be one that could go away. But I would say that let’s say a school where it is -- or a particular class, everybody is vaccinated in that class, and also the level of community transmission is declining, I could imagine that situation being where we remove masks because we have all these other layers. Or if we have rapid testing, imagine if every child and teacher were tested every morning, and also they’re vaccinated, you can imagine that situation, even if there is high levels of community spread that maybe you can remove masks at that time. But we are nowhere near that yet and I think what we really need to do is get the vaccines authorized for children as soon as that is possible and also really ramp up testing. Because that is a powerful tool that we are just not using across the country as we should be."