Plan to get all fully vaccinated americans a third shot. That rollout was supposed to start next week. Here was dr. Fauci this morning. Are you expecting Pfizer Booster shots to be approved . You know, i dont Want To get ahead of the fda deliberations. The data that ive seen i believe strongly suggests that will be the case. Our position about at least planning for the eventuation we might have to give boosters. We have planned and are ready to go pending the decision thats made from a regulatory standPoint By the fda and their advisers. So here is what happens now. All of that is up to the full fda and the cdc who, throughout the coronavirus pandemic, have typically agreed with this committees nods of approval with the use of existing vaccines. Those vaccines, the fda said, are still effective, though, against severe disease and death. A third shot can increase immunity against the milder Breakthrough Infections and it all adds some uncertainty in terms of whAt The full Fda Committee
Hello, everyone. Im alisyn camerota. Welcome on this holiday. Americas doctors and nurses are short staffed, working overtime and begging for help. About 80 of icu beds across the country are full right now, a third of them with covid patients. Its gotten so bad in kentucky, the governor is sending in the national guard. Our situation is dire. We are setting case records. We have a Record Number of kentuckians in the hospital, in the icu battling for their lives. We have a Record Number of families praying for their Loved Ones on a ventilator, needing that assistance to breathe. New cases are spiking. The sevenday average is 300 higher than it was last Labor Day. This as the White House planned to roll out Booster Shots that maybe by changing. Lets bring in elizabeth cohen. So, elizabeth, what is the update on boosters . This Roll Outmay Start on september 20th, for many americans, but not necessarily for everyone. Before i go into details, i want to give the bottom line, which is if y
Sequoias sustain climate change, drought, and wildfires . Welcome to a Special Edition of the lead. Im Erica Hill in for Jake Tapper. We start today with our health lead. New concerns on this Labor Day that the long Holiday Weekend could worsen the Coronavirus Surge in the u. S. Despite Travel Warnings from the cdc, millions hit the roads, rails, and skies for a getaway. College football is back with Tens Of Thousands of mostly maskless fans packed into stadiums and some of the last districts to return to school are back tomorrow for Inperson Learning, including many in the northeast. Top health officials worry this can put even more strain on hospitals which are already running out of Icu Beds in parts of the country. Reporter summer is over. This week in the northeast, many schools start back, but ominous signs from the south. Kentucky schools opened already, and already one in five districts have closed at some Point Due to case counts, quarantines, or just lack of staff. We have a
Officials, we need to see a much better coordinated messaging whether it s from the president or from the major agencies, whatever it is, they have to, behind the curtains figure out how to make this all cohesive and credible entirely along the process of making these announcements. dr. bhadelia, there is now a demand. the vaccinated have, i think, an expectation that the vaccine will continue to protect them. it is sort of the only solace in this very almost divided status of the delta variant raging and packing hospitals and impacting all the care not just for covid patients but if your kid has appendicitis you re waiting longer. if someone has a heart attack, your chances of surviving may be diminished in a place with packed icus. what is sort of the reality of what s happening in america and the vaccinated wanting to stay
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