approval for younger kids can t come soon enough. for elementary school aged kids, pfizer tested a much lower vaccine dose. a third of the amount that s in shots for teens and adults. but doctors say that low dose in kids produced the same strong levels of antibodies with fewer side effects. pfizer says it plans to seek u.s. authorization by the end of the month. and once it does, the data will have to be examined by the fda and the cdc. and the timing appears to be in line with what dr. fauci said, his prediction of shots by late fall or early winter. so the company wanted to find a dose that would be very tolerable in the young kids while still providing adequate efficacy, efficacy on par with what we were seeing in older populations. hopefully this dose strikes that balance. fda will have to make the careful review. assuming that the fda s review takes from four to six weeks, which is what they ve signaled, a vaccine for children could be available as soon as the end of
recognise the all male government announced by the taliban. the home secretary will hold discussions with her french counterpart about the surge in the number of people crossing the english channel to the uk. over 1,000 migrants have made the journey so far this week. britney spears father has filed court documents seeking to end an arrangement that gave him control over her finances. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. mps will vote later today on the uk prime minister s plans for a national insurance rise, to pay for the nhs and social care. yesterday borisjohnson announced what he called the biggest catch up programme in the history of the nhs. £36 billion, raised over three years, to deal with the backlog caused by the pandemic. more than £5 billion of that will go towards changes to social care in england. scotland, wales and northern ireland will also receive an additional £2.2 billion to spend on their services. the money will also b
as i have explained to the house, there is a massive union dividend of £300 million across the whole of the united kingdom and the whole of the uk will find more money for health and social care, that, i think, uk will find more money for health and social care, that, ithink, is what people of scotland will understand. what people of scotland will understand. , ., , understand. there will be millions of eole understand. there will be millions of peeple right understand. there will be millions of people right across understand. there will be millions of people right across the - understand. there will be millions of people right across the country| of people right across the country who are so relieved today that at last health and social care is going to be resolved. but can the prime minister reassure the many people who are very concerned about early intervention, providing support for families with the very youngest in our society so they too can have healthy lives
can this is a reasonable question to ask. i wonder how you defend that point. sure, this was raised by a group of doctors in texas, one of the states that is seeing very heavy use of their i.c.u. beds, about the role of the vaccination should play. it shouldn t be ever the only factor, but it should be one factor because we know that if you re unvaccinated, the chance of severe infection and death is higher, that that is one of the ingredients in making triage decisions. but even when they published this idea of maybe considering vaccination status as one of the factors, there was a lot of blowback, including from other doctors and care givers about what it would do to the doctor/patient relationship if you started having asking patients as they come to the hospital to give them your status as a reason to treat them or not. fair enough. i mean, listen, the data is clear. vaccination saves lives, keeps you out of those hospital beds. but the fact is in health care, for