i have a sixth grader who s not vaccinated and i don t feel safe for her to have lunch together with hundreds potentially of other kids who are not vaccinated. i think we need to educate our students. i ve taken the time to educate mine. all hour, we will be answering questions that you send in about how to keep our kids safe and who better to give us answers that we can trust than dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci right now, just moments, he s going to answer those questions that have been submitted. you can still send in a question. it s talk at msnbc.com. meanwhile, we re keeping a very close eye on the potentially major meeting of the fda s outside advisers, the topic of this meeting, booster shots and whether we need them. let s get right to dr. fauci. chief medical adviser to president biden, also the director at the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. always a pleasure to have you, sir. let s start with this fda meeting happening right now. are you
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
for the best. the fencing around the u.s. capitol is about to go back up, days before a right-wing rally, as police today arrest an armed neo-nazi blocks from the capitol. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin today with our health lead. while president biden s new covid vaccine or testing mandate on businesses continue to face fierce opposition from some republican governors, a new cnn poll shows that the majority of the american people support these mandates for workers, for students, and for everyday public life. and now we re learning that the biden administration is expecting to make more announcements in the fight against the delta variant, as the death count keeps climbing up. now averaging 1,600 covid deaths a day, 1,600 in the united states. and more than 100,000 hospital beds are currently filled with covid patients nationwide. some good news, well, we are seeing case numbers at the lowest point in three weeks. in new york, today is the first day you ll
next week. and as americans commemorate 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, are we any safer from terrorists than we were on that day when the towers fell and the nation changed forever? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden pushing back hard at republican critics on his new covid-19 strategy. our chief national affairs correspondent is at the white house for us. jeff, the president appears undaunted by the backlash. the white house does believe it is on solid legal ground here saying it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide a safe workplace and protect workers. now, these actions this week have gone much farther than president biden has gone before. in fact, a reversal from previous pledges not to issue mandates. but he said he never expected the resistance to be so fierce. that s why he s taking these steps and leaving the door ope