Imposing vaccine mandates at this point? no. i think that you have 80 plus million people who told you they didn t want to get vaccinated even though they know 650,000 people have died, even though they know that the vaccine is safe and effective. they just don t want it. they re telling you this is a civil liberty or personal choice. and i think the only way that you re going to get that group vaccinated is to compel them to be vaccinated by mandates. what about kids under the age of 12? when will the fda approve vaccines and dosage for them? it doesn t look like pfizer has yet submitted that to the vaccine advisory committee and the fda. we probably won t have that till mid-winter which is a problem because you have now the delta variant, you re heading into the winter months when this virus is more easily spread and you re going to have a group of fully susceptible people all in one place. that s not a good recipe. what do you say to parents who think the process for
Should get out of the way. at least seven states banned mask mandates, with others trying to limit usage. today dr. anthony fauci also said the governors should mandate vaccines for teachers. of course one question many parents have is when those vaccines will be ready for children under the age of 12. last week the american academy of pediatrics in a letter suggested the fda was moving too cautiously and urged approving vaccination of children as young as 5 years of age, even as testing continues. joined now by our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and the co-director for the center for vaccine development at the texas children s hospital dr. peter hotez who s also author of the book preventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacy in a time of anti-science. sanjay, president biden today said he s very concerned about unvaccinated kids going back to school. dr. fauci said the fda isn t likely to greenlight the pfizer vaccine for children under 12 until early to mid winte