BERMAN: There is new concern this morning about the safety of schools reopening, Massachusetts now requiring all K-12 students to get flu vaccines before the end of the year. It comes as the daily death toll topped 1,000 for the 22nd time in the past month, more than 1,300 new deaths recorded. Joining us now is CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay, I'm very interested by what Massachusetts is doing. The only thing important to so many parents right now is how schools, whether they will reopen. Why do this? What does it tell you?</s>GUPTA: Well, first of all, I'll point out that Massachusetts is a state that we should all pay attention to. I mean, they've done a really good job on various aspects of controlling this, including having contact tracing and more testing in place. And now, as you point out, K-12. So everybody has got to get a flu shot by the end of the year. I mean, there have been other school districts around the country, as you know, that have had some implementation of flu mandatory vaccines in different age groups. But this is going to be much more widespread. I mean, the concern as you go into the fall, you've got coronavirus and you've got flu. This is all about the idea that if you start to have this double-whammy, as Dr. Robert Redford has talked about, you could start to overflow hospitals again. This is that flatten the curve sort of model. And also, in places where you don't have adequate testing, somebody comes in with these symptoms, you don't know. Is this coronavirus, is this flu? Everyone's got to put on the personal protective equipment, assume that it's coronavirus. You remember all of this. This is the same discussion we were having at the end of last flu season. So they want to try to obviate some of that going forward.</s>CAMEROTA: Parents in New York City, obviously one of the hugest public school systems in the country, if not the, are still confused. END
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