closing its borders to all non-japanese citizens. here in the united states president biden rolled out his nine-point plan today ramping up booster shots and testing only limiting travel from certain countries. let s bring in rick bright who led the trump administration s vaccine development effort and resigned after a whistle-blower complaint saying his early warnings about the pandemic had been ignored. rick, good to see you again. we should note after the election you briefly joined president biden s covid advisory board. what do you make of the new response plan announced today? is it enough do you think? jake, thanks for having me back on. like many plans they re just plans. it is a great start. i think there are great points. it is surprising to see some of those points being rolled out as a new idea two years into a pandemic. i think the most important thing we need to see in america and across the world is action. we need to see leadership and coordination and coordinate acti
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A few days after Christmas, Molly Hering, 14, and her brother, Sam, 12, got their first shots as part of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trials for kids. Their mom had heard about a clinical trial being conducted at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and Molly told me that she’d agreed to join because she wanted to contribute to the vaccine-development effort.
Molly and Sam’s dad was recently hospitalized with COVID-19. (He recovered.) Both kids have spent most of the past year dealing with Zoom school and its attendant technical glitches. Molly finally went back to in-person ninth grade this month, but masks and social distancing are required at school. Like everyone else, she’s looking forward to the end of the pandemic. “I’ll finally be able to go to school normally,” she said.