nasty flood before everyone even gets their power back from the previous storm. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our health lead. an alarming new coronavirus trends especially among children. new data from the american academy of pediatrics show infections are up 240% since july. to put that into context, more than 240,000 kids in the u.s. tested positive for coronavirus just last week. now, it is important, as always, to note that kids remain far less likely than adults to get seriously sick or to die from coronavirus. but that does not mean that some don t get seriously ill or worse. and either way, kids can still carry and spread the virus. with hospitalizations and deaths on the rise again among adults and with a quarter of the country refusing to get vaccinated, health experts say, once again, communities need to focus on slowing the spread. in just a few moments i m goin to speak with dr. anthony fauci and whether booster shots will be re
consequential moments since the approval of the covid vaccines, and just over 75% of american adults have gotten at least one shot, but the scientists say that until we get a huge portion of the last 25% vaccinated, the light at the end of the tunnel will remain elusive, and beyond that, kids under age 12 still can t get vaccinated and approval could be months away. now, as they are returning to school, the covid cases among kids are rising. in miami-dade, florida, at least 13 school employees have died since mid-august and all of them unvaccinated and all of them african-americans and headlines like that are haunting the parents and school administrators and why today, the los angeles board of education is expected to vote of whether to require all students 12 and older to be fully vaccinated. nbc news has learned that as part of the six-point plan, president biden is expected to mandate the vaccinations for all federal employees and employees of contractors who do business
will face the biggest hurdles. and france is set to hold its biggest trial ever on the 2015 terror attacks. we re live outside the paris courthouse. good to have you with us. u.s. president biden is making an aggressive pitch for a legacy-defining domestic agenda. the white house is struggling to contain the resurgence in the coronavirus pandemic with now more than 40 million cases. the president is also focused on the destruction left by hurricane ida and the wildfires in the western united states to push for funding for infrastructure and to fight the climate crisis. but he is facing opposition to the multitrillion dollar price tag and with the taliban new hard line government announced, the biden administration remains under fire for leaving americans and afghan allies behind. the white house is asking for billions in funding to help afghan refugees and the evacuation process. on thursday president biden will give a speech outlining the next phase of his administrati
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. now tom
now account for more than one in four of all weekly new coronavirus infections, with over 250,000 new infections in the last week alone. child hospitalizations, they re also at an all-time high. but to be clear, less than 2% of all pediatric covid-19 cases result in hospitalization, far below with older people. dr. anthony fauci says the uptick in cases is still avoidable. if we do things right, we hope that we don t see much increase at all. 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. some schools in the south have been particularly hit hard since reopening. one district in central georgia has temporarily moved to virtual learning after three transportation staff died in recent weeks. in florida 13 employees in miami dade public schools died since mid august. we should note, all of them unvaccinated. that statis