eligible may get it. it s not licensed for the under 18s. vaccine experts say the key message is to get immunised. the difference between having a booster vaccine and not having a booster vaccine is much larger and much more important than any difference between vaccine types. in other words, if you re offered a vaccine, please take up the offer and be vaccinated because that is the important message, not which type of vaccine you ve been offered. pfizer also has a bivalent covid vaccine which could get approved in the near future. so that would mean more of us getting the new generation ofjabs. and don t forget flu. it could be as big a threat as covid this winter. so getting a flu vaccine is also important. and we ll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow s front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this
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boris, kristy. and there s going to be midterm elections where americans are going to vote on the economic woes they re facing. later this morning the cdc s panel of vaccine experts are going to meet and vote on whether to recommend pfizer and moderna s covid-19 vaccines for kids as young as six months. the majority of states preordered shipments of the vaccine ahead of the cdc giving the okay. it s certain that there is a huge relief among parents who have been waiting for a covid vaccine to protect young kids. but those on the fence here s jacqueline howard. reporter: the white house said shots could begin as early as this week. pediatrician offices and pharmacies will be the sites where these vaccines will be administered. children under 5 now have two options, moderna or pfizer. the fda authorized both for children as young as six months old.
this point. you are calling out cdc advisory panel, pfizer is looking to jab kids as young as six months. why are you against this panel, doc? again, the biden administration s fda was completely bypassed in convening their technical experts, theirad visery committee. those are top vaccine experts in the country. many signalled they are not on board with this recommendation to give a booster to 24 million 5-11-year-olds. when you make such a sweeping recommendation for the entire country we with such strong vigor, ordering all 24 million children in the country 5-11 to get a booster, you should convene technical experts. instead, they put it in front of committee well known to fire people who have dissenting opinions, they did that with
outbreak can be controlled and contained. there is no way this is going to be another covid-19 and i will tell you why. this virus is not nearly as contagious as sars. early estimates in one person has it one other person can have it. the covid if one person has it three or four people can get it. it doesn t spread as easily. we need more information, though. gillian: while the president seemed to say over the weekend there is already a vaccine, i would imagine that a lot of americans have been exposed to the vaccine, is that right? that s another good point. i m glad you brought that up. the smallpox vaccine was given to everybody born before 1972. and i just talked to one of our top vaccine experts in the u.s. about this and he says studies show immunity from that can least up to 50 years. so we have partial immunity from the vaccine from people that were born before 1972 but
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