With the rise in cases as pfizer is seeking Fda Approval for its booster shot. What about Johnson Johnson . J j also recommending a booster for its singledose vaccine. Reporter Johnson Johnson is the latest Covid19 Vaccine Manufacturer recommending a booster shot. The company releasing early clinical trial data, supporting a second dose eight months after the original shot, to boost its single shot vaccine. The data were seeing emerge suggests that a second shot of the J J has a profound effect on your antibody levels. Reporter meanwhile, pfizer has started the Fda Process for approval for its booster. Unvaccinated people are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized, as medical centers are seeing their units fill up with covid cases. Its been very bad, very hard. Every shift now, we see people struggling to breathe. Theres always a Nurse Kind of right here ready to intervene at any moment. Reporter across oregon, medical units are pushed to the limit. Nbcs Portland Affiliate kgw got exc
On Booster Shots for most americans. Were also following dangerous and fastmoving developments out of afghanistan. We just learned Defense Secretary Lloyd austin and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Mark Milley, will be briefing reporters this afternoon. This will be the first time weve heard from them since the taliban seized control of afghanistan. This comes as we get a new and clearer view of desperate afghans trying to get out of the country and a faltering u. S. Response despite evacuation flights resuming at kabuls airport. Reports of taliban fighters opening fire to disperse large crowds. Witnesses reporting protesters being beaten by taliban fighters as well. Cnns Clarissa Ward is on the ground with reporting on the mayhem on the streets near kabuls airport. Well bring that to you in just a moment. We are moments away from a big announcement from President Bidens covid response scene, that Booster Shots will be recommended for the general public. Third doses could be
Were live outside athens, greece, where flames are swallowing forests and villages whole and many are forced to flee for their lives. A disturbing milestone in Americas War with the coronavirus shows that the Delta Variant is winning the race right now. The u. S. Averaging more than A Hundred Thousand cases each day for the first time since back in february before vaccines were widely available. The worst of it is in florida where hospitalization records are being shattered both in adults and children. Florida also seeing its highest number of Weekly Covid cases ever. Still is states republican Governor Ron Desanta is rejecting Mask Mandates for schools. I have young kids. My wife and i are not going to do the mask with the kids. We never have. I want to see my kids smiling. I want them having fun. And in what might be the ultimate example of the glass being half full or half empty, the nations covid Vaccination Rate now stands at just over 50 , far short of the level experts say is ne
This is about what we need to do to bring back new York City. Plus the Capital Riot Committee starts the Work Tomorrow as the feud between the House Speaker and the Republican Leader gets more public and yes, more pointed. And it is Infrastructure Week again. Still no deal despite the president s pledge to get one by today. Republicans just rejected the democratic offer that was aimed at closing the big divides. We begin the hour with this covid surge. Big new Debates Coast to coast about how to handle rising Case Counts. Mask debates are back. Vaccine mandates another big flash point today. Just this morning, the new York City mayor put the entire City Work Force on notice. Get vaccinated by September 13th or be required to get Weekly Covid tests. This means everybody. This means obviously everyone who worked in our schools, our educators and staff. It means the nypd, the fdny, all city Agencies P. People who work in offices and the frontline. Everyone. Because september is when the r
Police officers and bystanders jump into action to save a trapped mother and her baby. That dramatic video coming up. That is ahead. We do begin this hour with the pandemic. Spiraling Out Of Control in america. That is how former surgeon general Jerome Adams is describing it right now. 49 states are reporting increases in new coronavirus cases in the last week. The average number of daily cases has more than quadrupled the in the last month. Now over 50,000 cases aday. The number of people hospitalized have doubled if the last Month And Dr. Fauci is sounding the alarm as the surges are fueled by people still unvaccinated. Listen. Were going in the wrong direction. It is really an outbreak among the unvaccinated. So this is an issue predominantly among the unvaccinated which is the reason why were out there practically pleading with the unvaccinated people to go out and get vaccinated. The cdc is now considering changing its Mask Guidelines for vaccinated people in light of the surges.