Good evening and it s great to have you with us here as we start another week together. the news coming in out of afghanistan in just a moment. will president biden extend this deadline? is there a firm number on americans and afghans still trying to get out? but we are going to begin tonight with that major news on the pfizer vaccine, now given full approval by the fda. president biden today calling this a key milestone in the fight against the pandemic. the fda calling it a pivotal moment for our country. it comes amid the surging delta variant. more than 137,000 new covid cases a day in this country. and authorities are now hoping this leads to more of the unvaccinated getting the shot and more companies and businesses mandating their workers get vaccinated, too. pfizer is, of course, now the first covid vaccine in the u.s. to be fully licensed. until now, it had only been given emergency use authorization, now full approval, based on data from 45,000 trial volunteers showing
Tonight, several major headlines as we come on the air. the fda giving full approval now to the pfizer vaccine and what this could mean for vaccine mandates in this country. and the news coming in from afghanistan tonight. the evacuations. how many americans, how many afghan interpreters remain? and will the president extend that august 31 gs deadline? tonight, the dally ban with a warning if he does. first, the coronavirus and tonight, pfizer now the first covid vaccine in the u.s. to be fully approved for americans 16 and older. until now, it had been given emergency use authorization, now full approval. found to be 91% effective at preventing the virus. federal authorities have long hoped this moment would help with the unvaccinated, providing
and eva pilgrim with us tonight. and eva, we should point out that with this full approval of the pfizer vaccine, the fda still warning that the vaccine should not be used in younger children around 12, but that they re still working on this? reporter: that s right, david. the fda making it very clear that the vaccine should not be given off-label to children under 12. the commissioner saying they are not just small adults. the fda is still studying the safety data and the proper dose before making that reck m recommendation for those younger children. that decision could come this fall. david? eva pilgrim, thank you. and so, with the fda giving pfizer vaccine the full approval, the bigger picture here tonight, will this change minds, will this change what companies now do moving forward? and, of course, the booster shot, that third shot now on the horizon. so, let s get right to dr. ashish jha. and dr. jha, always great to have you. first off, i m curious your thoughts, how big
Giving full approval to the pfizer vaccine for americans 16 and older, making it the first vaccine to move past emergency use authorization. if you re one of the millions o americans who said that they will not get the shot until it has full and final approval of the fda, it has now happened. the moment you ve been waiting for is here. reporter: the president calling the fda s review process the gold standard. the pfizer vaccine found to be 91% effective in preventing covid-19. in just eight months, americans have received 200 million pfizer doses, with a billion more given around the world. the vaccine is now among the most studied in history. full approval for the pfizer vaccine now paving the way for more vaccine mandates from schools, governments and corporations. and with a surging delta variant, the president is pushing companies to act. if you re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or
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