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Decades and decades. our kids and parents have been bringing our kids into the doctors office or getting them to the school nurse and getting vaccinated and keeping them health a safe and so for the rest of us could move beyond that pandemic. >> now in terms of the timing for all of this, this is going to be worked in in terms of a phased in approach. once the fda grants full approval for the age cohort, you need to be vaccinated and of course later for 5 to 11 years of age. and in terms of how ...

This is a potential additional tool in our tool box to protect people from the worst outcomes of covid. >> now doctor fauci went on so say that he expected merck to submit data to the fda imminently. there is another drug in the early stages of covid and it works very well but it delivered by an iv or by shots. much more difficult and much more complicated to deliver. this is just a pill. your family doctor could call in a prescription. allison. >> and just to be clear, this shouldnt replace get...

>> i had a phone call, get back here and you need to tell your mom. >> reporter: daryls mother is still on the defense of the vaccine and indicative of the struggle to end the pandemic and now left to raise his niece and nephew. the days following his sisters death. the next day i went to get the vaccination. am i doing right by god and natalie. i got it out of fear. >> medical officials on both sides of the border are saying whats happening are so tragic. why stick with the status quo. why not ...

Country faces a desperate battle against the virus. cnns dan simon has the story now. >> do you guys want eggos? >> reporter: he worked as a truck driver. today darryl rise is a full-time caregiver in coeur dalene idaho to 10-year-old twins emmett and emery, after their mother, darryls sister, died last month from covid-19. >> as they were intubating her and theyd given her the sedation and the paralytic, which is standard, her heart just let go. >> reporter: natalie rise was only 46. >> tell me...

Anna, thank you so much for uni joining us. idaho is coping for a rapidly covid crisis. the state is putting pressure on hospital and neighboring washington state and health officials say vaccine misinformation is largely to blame. cnns dan simon broke to the brother of a nurse who died of covid after refusing to get vaccinated. >> he works as a truck driver. >> reporter: their mother died last week from covid-19. >> that is they were giving her the sedation, her heart just let go. >> reporter...

You know, am i doing right by god? am i doing right by natalie? and i got it out of fear. >> reporter: don, health officials on both sides of the idaho/washington border say what theyre seeing is so tragic. so they ask why would you stick with the status quo? why not enact a mask mandate for instance? but they say whats most frustrating is that people are dying needlessly. don? >> dan simon, thank you. and thanks for watching. our coverage continues.

0 black kids to learn how to swim. >> black kids drown twice as much as any other ethnic group. >> they got rid of the community pools because they didnt want the races mixing. they filled the pool either with concrete or with dirt where i grew up because they didnt want people mixing. thats one reason why a lot of black kids didnt learn how to swim in the 50s and 60s. >> right. because the only thing they were able to do was play in the fire hydrants. sometimes they would sneak into the pools l...

>> so sad. dan, i experienced this in idaho this summer, seeing the groups of vaccinated and unvaccinated. how tense is it from what you see now in idaho, where obviously you are tonight, and also neighboring washington state where you really do see these pockets of vaccinated and pockets of unvaccinated. how is the tension? >> reporter: well, medical officials, erin, on both sides of the border are saying what is happening is so tragic. what theyre saying, and this is where they get angry, is w...

Desperate. dan simon is outfront. >> you guys want eggos? >> reporter: he works as a truck driver. today, hes a full-time caregiver in coeur dalene, idaho to his twins after their mother, darryls sister, died last month from covid-19. >> as they were intubating her, theyd given her the sedation and the paralytic, which is standard, her heart just let go. >> reporter: natalie rise was only 46. tell me what did natalie do for a living? >> natalie was a registered nurse, and she did home health car...

Act like this is not happening. to get out and get a vaccine today, its not going help us for weeks, but it would be a start. >> dan im op, thank you so much for that. joining me to discuss is dr. henry bernstein, a pediatrician at cohen childrens medical center joining us right now. hes also a former voting member of the cdcs vaccine advisory committee. so glad you could be with us. so, doctor, things are really bad right now. in every hospital across the country you would think that that is im...