Children, perhaps close to halloween. Next steps, pfizer and its partner, biontech, will apply to the fda in coming days to get their vaccine authorized for use in children. The New York times underscoring the urgent need for a safe and effective vaccine for kids asap writing this, quote, children now account for one in five new cases, when the highly contagious Delta Variant has sent more children into hospitals and icus in the past few weeks than at any time other time in the pandemic. Its coming at a complicated moment for kids in schools with classrooms all across this country shutting down or having to revert once again to remote learning just days or weeks into the new School Year. Doctors in alaska, idaho, and montana are facing what the Washington Post describes as agonizing ethical questions, forced to Ration Care for some of its sickest patients as hospitals surpass capacity due to covid surges. The state of alabama revealing their grimmest of statistics, that deaths outpace
I think it could be a real issue for patients and for General Practice, and that is, of course, if General Practice is in trouble then patients are in trouble. And Wheelchair Racer Hannah cockroft wins her seventh paralympic title in the t34 800 metres. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or Around The World. The uks four chief medical officers are expected to decide within days whether to recommend vaccinating healthy children against coronavirus. Yesterday the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation, which advises the Uk Government, decided against recommending the jabs for 12 15 Year Olds, saying the Health Benefits were marginal. Its believed the government think theres a strong case for going ahead. Heres our health correspondent, catherine burns. America has been doing it since may. More than 10 Million 12 15 Year Olds there have had a Covid Vaccine. Other countries are, too, including canada, brazil, france, the netherlands, italy but not the uk. Regulators ap
I think it could be a real issue for patients and for General Practice, and that is, of course, if General Practice is in trouble then patients are in trouble. And Wheelchair Racer Hannah cockroft wins her seventh paralympic title in the t34 800 metres. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or Around The World. Labour says it believes theres a strong case to vaccinate healthy children against covid, to prevent any further disruption to their education. Ministers have asked the uks four chief medical officers to consider the broader implications, after the Joint Committee On Vaccination And Immunisation recommended against the measure for all 12 15 Year Olds. Heres our health correspondent, catherine burns. America has been doing it since may. More than 10 Million 12 15 Year Olds there have had a covid vaccine. Other countries are, too, including canada, brazil, france, The Netherlands, italy but not the uk. Regulators approved vaccines as safe and effective for this Age Group i
This hurricane is called ida. It looks particularly worrying because it is large already, because it is moving slowly. Because the Storm Surge and rainfall amounts associated with that are epic. And it is due to track over some unusually warm water, on its way toward land. As a general rule, with offshore storms like this, the warmth of the Ocean Temperatures that the storm passes through on their way to land, those temperatures translate directly into fuel for the energy of the storm. Again, i know a new million things are going on right now, it doesnt feel like we have the bandwidth to handle another disaster, but here she comes. Hurricane ida its going to be a big part of your News Diet over the weekend. If you are in the path of the storm you need to pay very close attention to public warnings and Evacuation Orders. We will have more on that later on this hour. Also, in afghanistan, as we speak, it is just about don In Kabul, after the Isis Suicide Bombing of the Kabul Airport. The