where the problem resides. douglas, always appreciate the perspective. thank you. thank you. fda vaccine advisers voted in favor on authorizing moderna s vaccine for children as young as 6 years old. let s go to elizabeth cohen. what do you know? reporter: victor, this is exciting news for parents with young children. this is the next step and we ll see if the fda authorizes it and the cdc green lights it. we expect both to happen quite quickly. let s look at the moderna vaccine for these very young children. we re talking about children 6 months to 5 years old. they found when they looked at the children s blood who got the vaccine, their antibody response was as good as adults. that s good, but that s not the ultimate test. the test is what happens when you give it to children and
ashley strohmier in new york. the house passing a sweeping gun-control package, the bill that comes in response to a string of mass shootings would make it illegal to buy a semiautomatic weapon for anyone under the age of 21 and would also forbid the sale of magazines containing more than 15 rounds. the suspects in the shootings at a texas element tree school and in upstate new york supermarket were both 18 years old. little chance of clearing the senate. sing optimism about his updated covid-19 booster, stronger antibody response to the omicron variant and is generally still tolerated. the booster would still need fda approval but could become available by the fall. back to the ingraham angle. for all of the headline news, go to foxnews.com.
brace yourself for another surge of covid infections. new research suggests omicron sub variants will be to blame. the good news, moderna says new trial data shows its updated booster shot is more effective against omicron. i want to bring in cnn s elizabeth cohen. what else do we know about this new booster and when will it be available to americans? this is potentially quite exciting. we re basically working off the same vaccines that were invented in 2020 when we had a completely different variant. so let s talk about moderna s booster. it s bivalent meaning it has the original as well as this new omicron centered booster. it generated stronger antibody response than just the original booster without that omicron,
protection against the omicron variant. the company says the new shot provides a higher antibody response that s so strong it could potentially last a year. moderna hopes its new booster will be available in the late summer. all right, coming up next, meet motherghtedu who are brng a cnittogeer once te. of two immunotherapies that works differently. it could mean a chance to live longer. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, tests positive for pd-l1, and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene. together, opdivo plus yervoy helps your immune system launch a response that fights cancer in two different ways. opdivo plus yervoy equals a chance for more time together. more family time. more time to remember. opdivo and yervoy can cause your immune system
largely people have taken the vaccines but not yet had respiratory illness. laura: so they have fewer what is it antibodies over time according to the newew study tht came out at the end of april, very significant study and we will be talking about it later. if you were an aunt to antibody response in the vaccinated? is that correct? it is true that a vaccine may hold back full protective state ofat immunity after the natural infection arrives in the individual. this is worrisome because it may set them up for another infection down the line. laura: dylan byers is reporting ncr is keeping a really strict mass policy in place treating a snitch line, dr. mccullough to rat out colleagues not abiding by it because they do not comply and they will be fired. reaction to that. you know, we need to abandon any type of directional