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for people six months out. six months ago back in march there was about 22 million people roughly, 23 million people who had received the pfizer vaccine in the united states so, you know, we don t know that all of them will come under these umbrella groups of who should need a of the booster but you ll get an idea how many people will be showing. it s going to be a lot of people. the fda authorized the pfizer vaccine booster for people 56 and older, people at high risk of severe disease and people whose jobs put them at a high risk of infection, day care workers, votes in going back to the high risk of disease, how is that group from different immunocompromises who can get
education department sent letters to oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee and utah. cnn s evan mcmorris santoro joins me now. evan, the argument here essentially, without mask mandates, schools are unsafe, particularly for students with compromised immune systems. how does this play out from here? reporter: that s exactly right, jim. as we heard in florida, what this really is is a huge step up in what is the most remarkable political story of covid, if you ask me. this battle over keeping kids safe in school during this delta variant spread. those states you mentioned, iowa, south carolina, utah, those states, they don t have mask mandates for they have banned universal masking. the department of education is investigating a 1973 law prohibiting discrimination against disabled students as well as the landmark 1990 ada, americans with disability act, to investigate if the disabled students, kids with immunocompromises, are getting a