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classes. the district s board of education is meeting later today and one member tells new day that the measure is expected to pass. now, this would be the most sweeping and aggressive safety measure instituted anywhere in the country. and it happens to be in the nation s second largest school district. yeah. this will be a very big deal when it happens. and it does look likely to happen. we ll speak to a member of the school board coming up. again, this could be a key turning point in terms of vaccine requirements. children now represent more than one in four new coronavirus cases in the country. among all age groups we should note that hospitalizations are now back up to more than 101,000. we had been watching as the numbers had dropped some, but not anymore. president biden is delivering what the white house is calling a major speech on covid later today. he s expected to lay out a new six-part plan which will include an emphasis of extending certain vaccine requ ....
spreading in children like never before. right now one in every four new cases is a child. and dr. anthony fauci says our kids are extremely vulnerable. if we want to protect the children particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated, teachers, school personnel, everyone else. even though there are some government leaders locally who are trying to push back on that, we have to get the school system masked in addition to surrounding the children with vaccinated people. in florida, the miami-dade school system has been ravaged by the virus. 13 school employees have died since mid august. get more now from nick watt. reporter: christine and laura, outbreak mode, that is what dr. faanthony fauci says w are in right now, more than 4 million new covid-19 cases confirmed in just the past four weeks. he says we can turn it around, we have the tools, the main tool of course being the vaccine. n ....
and of course the goal is to get as many back in the classroom while keeping the covid cases town. delta variant is still dominating and we know that there are vastly different rules governing school districts. so that is why health experts health experts to exceed the goal stick to the science. what re seeing is a mixed bag of mask adherence, some requiring masks, others not, others making laws against, and others only making it mandatory for the unvacci unvaccinated. one thing is for sure this fall, the school year will be anything but normal for students yet again, which gets me to the next thing we ll be looking for the in the coming months when kids under 12 will be able to get the vaccine. it s obviously taking longer than parents sending their young children back to school feel good about as we see the delta variant is finding the unvaccinated. trial data is still being gathered. once that s done, it will be submitted to the fda. pfizer thinks it will be able to ....
ago and highest since early march. the delta variant still spreading among and killing the unvaccinated. health officials plans to roll out booster shots has hit a hitch. pfizer has passed its study information to the fda but moderna hasn t yet. what you might see is rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster program of both dose products, you may be sequential by about a week or two. i don t think that that is a major issue there, but we would have liked to have seen it happen all together simultaneously. the completely avoidable resurgence of covid compounded by fallout from chaotic u.s. withdraw from afghanistan, new concerns over job growth and latest complications facing the president s sweeping infrastructure and social programs. jasmine wright is live in washington. jasmine, a tough summer for the president and the country ending on a tough note. reporter: yeah, certainly not the summer that the president and the white house wanted. and this ba ....
resurgent, the job recovery severely decelerating. and this morning there are growing questions about when a vaccine booster will actually be available. top health officials have warned the white house that more time is needed to review all the data. school is back in session as the u.s. is now averaging more than 160,000 new coronavirus cases a day. that is 300% higher than labor day one year ago. and dangerously high level of community transmission in nearly the entire country. dr. anthony fauci says the country is getting perilously close to having to make tough decisions about who getting an icu bed. but hospitalizations have dropped below 100,000 again. that is a positive trend that hopefully will continue. and overnight, the taliban announced they seized panjshir province, that was the final holdout of resistance forces in afghanistan. the white house is still insisting that the u.s. will find ways to get the remaining americans out of the country. and on this h ....