variant, but it doesn t work if you don t get it. it is so frustrating for me. you know, there s so much in medicine we don t know. there s so much we can t do. this we know. and people, you know, despite the overwhelming evidence that this vaccine is safe and effective, nonetheless choose to reject it, is just enormously frustrating. so, dr. offitt, if there s overwhelming evidence this vaccine is safe and effective, when will it have full fda approval. we hear some say that would make a difference for them. it is more psychological than anything else. you have more than 300 million doses of the vaccine out there, you know the safety profile, you know its efficacy profile. it is not an experimental new drug at this point? why not full approval? yeah, when the fda licenses a product, meaning when the company submits a buy logics license application there s two aspects to that. one, here, it is having
cases here in the united states. that s risen rapidly so the key message here is get vaccinated quickly. joined by dr. paul offitt. all right. i have a ton for you but i want to be as viewer friendly as possible. on the vaccination front here, what are you seeing? how much of this hesitancy is impacting minors eligible between 12 and 17. the same places of adult hesitancy that the children of these hesitant adults are also not getting vaccinated? yes. i think it s both among adults choosing not to be vaccinated and parents not vaccinating the children. two things that stand in the way of getting on top of the pandemic. first are variants. seeing the third varpt why first
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this point which theory proves true. today president biden vowed that when the findings come in the public will know. will you pledge to release the report in full after 90 days? yes, that s unless there is something i m unaware of. joining us now is dr. paul offitt, the member of the fta vaccine advisery committee. what does an investigation that has international confidence look like? well, i think what china needs to do is open themselves up to a team of investigators who are going to look at the early origins of this virus, meaning look at if any of the laboratories there were working on bad coronavirus to look at the sequences of the strains, look carefully at the wet markets in terms of people working in the wet markets, people who ate, for example, fried bats or bat soup or bat tea or people cleaning the wet markets. i d like to say this far and a
with 24/7 roadside assistance. karma-karma-karma-karma-karma chameleon. now to the fight against the coronavirus, moderna now says its vaccine is safe and appears to be effective at preventing covid-19 in people between 12 and 17 years old. next, it goes to the fda to consider extending the vaccine s emergency use authorization to adolescents. dr. paul offitt joins us now, a member of the fda s vaccine advisory panel and also the director of the vaccine education center at the children s hospital in philadelphia. doctor, it s good to have you on with us, what does the fda need to see in this data to broaden the emergency use authorization to this group?