but tonight, there is more promising data on the vaccine in adolescents. pfizer reporting its shots were safe and 100% effective at preventing covid in 12 to 15-year-olds for at least four months. new covid cases are ticking up across 32 states, with overall infections up 42% in the last four weeks. we re dealing with a much more contagious variant than we did before. reporter: overwhelmed hospitals in michigan reportedly asking the pentagon for emergency staff. and in minnesota, the national guard is now training teams to help ease nursing shortages. and david, michigan hospital officials say that their e.r.s have more patients than they have rooms. they re using hallways, conference rooms and in some cases, diverting patients altogether. they say things could get worse before they get better and they are urging the public to get vaccinated. david? all right, erielle reshef tonight. erielle, thank you. tonight, the final autopsy report is now in on the death of brian laundrie,
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pfizer reporting its vaccine was 100% effective in children ages 12 to 15. none of the children who got the real vaccine developed covid-19. this is, like, really a high level of efficacy. no side effects that we re seeing so far, so we got to have the fda do the full evaluation, but i think this is terrific. reporter: 12-year-old caleb chung doesn t know if he got the vaccine or a placebo, but he wanted to be a part of the trial. potentially helping other kids to feel safe and want to get the vaccine in the future when it becomes publicly available was really some way that i could actually help out. reporter: last week, pfizer started testing vaccine doses on children ages 5 to 11. one, two, three. reporter: 9-year-old twins marisol and alejandra gerardo got the vaccine last week. both parents who are doctors say the girls handled it well. five, six
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