Monday, september 20th. the white house is trying to defend that by saying this week we have the ability to extend it to a bigger portion of the population than it was a week ago. so they feel they can take a little bit of credit for that, but what the president didn t address is this remarkable move by the cdc director in a midnight reversal and decision to contradict her own advisory panel. that has added to a lot of the confusion from the biden administration about just what s happening with booster shots. but overall, the president wanted to stress it s the unvaccinated that are hurting our health and our economic recovery, and that s really where his attention is right now. he said more than anything else, and more than these boosters. well, the idea that they re following the data is interesting. obviously the majority of that cdc advisory panel didn t agree with that. does the white house see any political benefit here to just being able to give vaccinated americans who are so
Overall message, wanting to make sure people know and have clarity, because really this process has been bogged down by some confusion in recent weeks. remember, it was originally monday, september 20th, the president had promisd third doses for all adults. that s what he thought the target date was going to be. and the cdc and fda panels had really only approved that for a subset of americans. that s what you re seeing today in terms of the elderly, the immunocompromised, and now those who might be at high exposure due to their work. the president trying to add some clarity here, because the white house has certainly been under criticism for that and then he continued to really lay into the unvaccinated. he said, those who haven t gotten their shots are putting americans most at risk, they re jeopardizing our health and our recovery, economically, he said. and in terms of his highest priority, he said, it s not booster shots, it is getting shots in arms of people who still have been w
Pfizer is the niemann marcus of vaccine and moderna is macy s and johnson & johnson is tj max of course. cedric, the entertainer. all win top of words. we are looking ahead to a pivotal week for president biden with a case speech at the united nation general assembly following a series of setbacks and the latest of the pandemic. a development out of alabama over deaths and 2020 out numbered births. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, september 20th. president biden will address the general assembly tomorrow, his first since taking office. it could amount to a major test
Washington, d.c., and our friend, former senator and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskell is here. dr. anderson i am coming to you first. this is something that i think a lot of parents had hoped would have been available and an option for us ahead this third school year to be impacted by covid. you have the end of 19-20 impacted. all kids home. last year impacted. no one was vaccinated for a good 70% of that school year. now we have had to send our babies back to school, under 12, without a vaccine. is the end in sight? yeah, the end is in sight. and this is a very important day, monday, september 20th, i think will go down as a really important moment in this terrible time. and we just talked about it last week. when are we going to see the data? and the pfizer announcement today i think really answered three questions. number one, who dose should we use in children down to 5. they use about one third the
Awards. the question is, has streaming officially taken over? it s way too early for this. good morning. and welcome to way too early. the show that always roots for afc richman. i m jonathan lemire on this monday, september 20th. we ll start with the news. tomorrow, president biden is set to deliver his first united nations general assembly speech since taking office. it could amount to a major test of his presidency. as some of america s closest allies look to see whether u.s. foreign policy has really changed since donald trump left the white house. tomorrow s speech comes on the heels of a series of stunning setbacks for the biden administration on friday. first, the pentagon acknowledged that a drone strike targeting terrorists in afghanistan late last month mistakenly killed ten civilians, including seven children. fda advisory panel overwhelmingly voted against a