immunocompromised but the government only purchased one-tenth of the doses that are needed for all of those that qualify. a big lesson getting in front of these things. lucy, thank you for that reporting. let me bring in dr. william schaffner from vanderbilt school of medicine and also an adviser on the cdc board for immunization practices. thank you very much for being with us. first your reaction to the new guidance in terms of lowered isolation mandate for health care workers who are vaccinated? poppy, that sounds very, very reasonable. it is based on the science. it will let people get back to work sooner. that will allow hospitals to take care of the hospitalized patients and although hospitalizations may be less, that doesn t mean zero. there are many places in the country where hospitalizations are now increasing, a lower risk for a large number of people still is a substantial number of
the new england journal of medicine published a study that showed regular vaccines are 80% effective after more than seven months. the cdc board is meeting today and give specifics as to who should get the booster shot and when but these will just be recommendations from the cdc. dana, back to you. dana: steve harrigan, thank you. trace: explosive new documents emerging about experiments at the wuhan institute of virology. chinese scientists planned to released an enhanced coronavirus into bat caves back in 2018 nearly two years before the first cases of covid emerged with the goal of engineering a more infectious disease. doctor siegel joined us last hour and said this. watch. let s take engineered bat coronaviruss and rereintroduce them to bats and engineered coronavirus and introduce them
4,500 children in nearly 90 clinical sites in the u.s., finland, poland and spain after subjecting a lower stage of the shot in the stage of the trial. they are testing the vaccine in lordosis in younger children. if the trials provide a safe immune response, pfizer will go before the cdc board to provide the vaccine for children. we are making progress here. u.s. health officials are working to get more americans vaccinated to keep what is called the delta variant of the coronavirus from spreading across the united states. cnbc reports that the new variant, which was first identified in india, has become the dominant strain in the uk accounting for an estimated 60% of new cases. according to dr. anthony fauci it s more prevalent than the
through. $4 billion of that $9 billion to go to consumers. it would be nice if consumers can feel this. there s never been one bigger. bigger than any drug industry deal and also bigger than the bp horizon deepwater heroes in 2007 and 2008. now they re paying up big. princeton university officials are taking action against a rare meningitis outbreak. centers for disease control prevention want the vaccine to be given to students even though it is not approved in the u.s. cnn s alexandra field joins us. reporter: good morning, christine and john. cdc board will have to sign off before the cdc can officially recommend it. for now, university leaders and health officials are in agreement, they want to import a vaccine that s not been for use here in the united states. the goal is to bring it to princeton university to try to stop an outbreak of meningitis b the.