Next question . Next question, cbs. Thanks, kevin and thanks for taking my question. A quick followup on sabrinas. What is the latest data about children and long haul symptoms after they recover even from mild cases . And then jeff, for you, now that more entities are requiring vaccines, is administration reconsidering something like a Qr Code or a passport to help verify Peoples Vaccination Status and if not, what are you doing to stop the proliferation of fake Vaccine Cards . Thank you. Dr. Walensky on the children long covid question. Right, thank you for that question. We are examining covid in children and we are seeing long covid symptoms, mostly fatigue and headache. They appear to be happening in rates lower than adults, 2 to 3 but data with delta among covid need to be followed differently and longitudely with alpha. More data to follow on that. On to vaccination verification. There are a number of ways people can demonstrate their vaccination status. Companies and organizati
Expected to authorize a third vaccine shot, a booster for people who are immunocompromised which may include people undergoing Cancer Treatments or organ transplants or hiv. Pfizer working with moderna to provide a booster for those people with immunocompromised individuals. It is about to assure the most vulnerable who may need an enhanced vaccine to help their immune system. And meantime, the headlines from covid from the south have gone from bad to bleak. Wrap your head around this, 40 of the new covid hospitalization, and 40 are coming from florida and texas alone. And now more people hospitalized with the covid in florida than there were in New York during the worst of the worst last year. So many overflowing e. R. S and icus that one Florida County is asking residents to use 911 sparingly. And they are asking the federal government for ventilators, too. And in texas, one hospital is setting up tents outside in texas in august outside. And they are asking for nurses to come to tex
And they have weapons and warriors coming over from the border, and killing the command commandos when they can. and we are tracking the number of people that we have now lost, and currently counting 669 people behind the enemy lines without contact. these were afghan interpreters and families hoping to try to get to kabul. if kandahar has fallen, you can double the number. it is frightening. this is a never-again moment in the making. it seems that we are only concerned about is our own shameful retreat. at the end of the war is was it worth it, and how to end it. we are ending this in shame, and not with honor. i heard nothing of how to evacuate the 44,000 people that
Personnel, the embassy personnel, out of the country, or only processing and securing them at the airport? we certainly anticipate being postured to support air lift as well for not only the reduction of civilian personnel from the embassy but also in the forward movement of special immigrant visa applicants. so we do anticipate there will be air lift required of us, and we are working through the final plans right now to put that into place. yeah. tom? thanks, john. in regards to what you just said to bob, about possible air lifting out of individuals, in regards to the special immigrant visa applicants, has it been decided where they ll be air lifted to, and if so, where, please? we re still working through a series of options, tom. we anticipate we ll be looking at locations overseas, outside
To work with, but we are going to be leaving the people in bagram, and i fear for all of the afghan allies, because i fear they are truly left behind. all right. courtney and matt, we will have a pentagon press conference, and we will need your expertise. so kelly cobiella is there, and i don t know frankly how much longer she is going to be able to safely report from kabul, and we will show you what she has been able to gather from the city today. let s watch. garrett, another key victory for the taliban today, and important one strategically, and they claimed the city of gazni which is to the edge of the south of kabul which is strategic place which connects kabul to kandahar the second largest city, and traditionally a taliban stronghold.