All you watching us here in the United States, canada, and all around the world. Im kim brunhuber. This is Cnn Newsroom. Joe biden is back on the Campaign Trail trying to appeal to voters in a Battleground State insisting once again, he is staying in the race, not as left democrats scrambling to figure out their messages amid questions about Bidens Age and mental fitness, will tell you whos the latest to call on him to and his campaign meanwhile, Donald Trump is talking about what will go into his choice for a Running Mate just two days before the start of the republican national Committee Convention in the coming hours, us president Joe Biden has some tough meetings scheduled with democratic caucuses on capitol hill. Hes still working to convince his own party that hes the right candidate to face Donald Trump. But On Friday, he was on the Campaign Trail connecting with voters au im not going home moments ago. One sign that is motown is Joe Town biden addressed a crowd in the battlegro
Allcivilian crew splashing down to crew. The details on their return after three days in orbit. Welcome to sunday, september 19th. We are always so grateful to have your company. Good morning, boris. Good morning, christi. Always grateful to be with you. We begin this morning with a Battle Against Covid and the continuing debate over Booster Shots. An Fda Panel recommended boosters for the Pfizer Vaccine for 65 and older and those at high risk of severe illness but not for everyone who originally got the Pfizer Vaccine as the White House had initially planned. The most pressing concern is the wave of unvaccinated people filling up hospitals right now. Thats leading to tough decisions about rationing care. Cnns Nadya Lamero looks at the latest numbers of covid cases in key hot spots and what they tell us about whats happening right now. Reporter florida, alabama, a bigtime College Football Showdown in the heart of Sec Country but bigtime covid19 country. Florida reported fewer than 100,
That review published in one of the most prestigious medical journals, the lancet, saying even with the Delta Variant, Eas Efficacy against severe disease is so high already that a third shot is not needed right now. Erica, looking at this report, it seems first thing is first, which is focus on the unvaccinated now before you focus on getting a Booster Shot to the vaccinated. I agree thats exactly what it sounds like in reading that. Lets get to medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. To be clear, this A Group of scientists here. Theyre not suggesting that the science has changed. The vaccines still work, as we know. Theyre looking at the broader issue of the pandemic. Theyre really looking at both, erica. What theyre saying is that the Science Isnt telling us that a booster is necessary. Theyre saying that two shots the two shots that so many of us already got, that it works against preventing hospitalization. You might still get infected with covid19, but that two shots are very effe
Ten days. Overall the national picture is bleak. The Wall Street Journal reports that, quote, since the School Year kicked off in late july, at least 1,000 schools across 31 states have closed because of covid19. A Data Service is monitoring School Closures at 1,200 districts nationwide, and that includes the 200 largest districts. Altogether these headlines paint an uncertain future for americas students. The majority of whom are still not eligible to get vaccinated against a virus that shows few signs of slowing down. So the question now is, how much worse could the fourth wave get and will we look back on this Moment And Regret sending our kids Back To School . Nbcs we have a pediatrician and an msnbc public health analyst, and president of the american federation of teachers. What a great panel. Thanks to All Of You for being here. Guad, according to the american association of pediatrics, one in five new coronavirus cases in the last week of august were in children. What is the st
If you got the Ways And Means and Money Youll be able to get treatment. But if you dont then you wont. It also affects medical providers and the last night on Allin Amy Hag strom mill miller, the founder of and ceo of whole womens health, the organization challenging the Texas Abortion Ban in the Supreme Court, spoke about the situation facing providers. We have seen lots of people come in since this law was passed Heart Breakingly we have had to turn away quite a lot of people. And its been really really difficult for our Staff Members who are there because of their commitment to this work, because of their commitment to the Human Rights and Justice Issue that was abortion, having to look people in the eyes and deny them care that they could provider just two or three days ago. Its really Heart Breaking for all of us to be put in this position. The fight is being joined, though. Meanwhile, several companies and groups are starting to speak out and fight back. Lyft and uber both say th