after a year of coronavirus, senior government figures tell say we should have locked down earlier in the autumn. i love you. no, you don t. know, i don t-u and a red carpet of british talent and diversity is among this year s oscar nominations. good evening. germany, italy, and france are among several european countries that have now suspended the use of the oxford astrazeneca covid vaccine. it follows cases of blood clotting reported in some people after having the jab. so, is the astrazeneca vaccine safe? experts here say it is, and the number of blood clots reported after the vaccine are no more than those typically reported within the general population. and the world health organization says there is no evidence of a link between the vaccine and reported blood clots. our medical editor fergus walsh has more. a public display of confidence in the oxford/astrazeneca vaccine from northern ireland chief medical officer today. by contrast, you cannot have the jab in the i
from getting any sort of symptomatic covid infection. put that in perspective for us. how promising might this be for ending the pandemic? two things on this. first of all, it s phenomenal. a high level of efficacy. this is the kind of stuff we saw early days of pfizer before the delta variant and other variants of concern came into effect. that was pretty compelling. kids need to get vaccinated because it s going to be good for them and protect them. obviously it s going to add population immunity to our broader population and help bring infection numbers down. it will be one more important step toward getting to the end of this pandemic. dr. jay varkey said, quote, vaccines don t end pandemics, vaccinations do. countries mostly in the southern hemisphere of still 500 million doses short. this is a global virus that doesn t care about borders. the u.s. has shared more doses than any other country in the world. but does the u.s. need to focus
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the hands of the fda. they described the plan that they re going to use to analyze those data and make sure that these vaccines are both safe and effective for kids. what we heard is it s likely that if the data are as expected that the authorization, the emergency use authorization for kids will come as early as halloween. i know that s what my kids want which is a candy bar and a shot, but it may come a little bit later into thanksgiving, but we re going to get this done hopefully in the next few months. what i m focusing on now is turning to the cdc to make sure they have a plan to actually deliver the vaccines. vaccines don t save lives, chris. vaccinations save lives. we have to actually get the shots into arms and that means the cdc needs to have a plan to do that. so is what you re saying right now with the boosters, does this inspire to say to them you need a better process. i don t want to hear from the fda and then another thing from
wound up with what we see in florida? look, there s plenty of blame to go around. messaging matters and messaging has kind of plagued the biden administration in this regard, and you know, why would people be wrong to have skepticism, you know? they don t say the same thing. they don t agree. they re not getting one message, they re getting two, but they re telling us they have to take it so they have a mandate with mixed messaging and that s a bad combination. well, i think one of the challenges is that people have lost confidence in public health officials and coming out of this we ll have to reinvigorate public health and there will be a lot of people who don t want to empower public health officials because the guidance has been shifting and this is a perfect example where in the setting of the pandemic planning and this is what we talk about in the book and we might create a different process where the cdc are, working together at th