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>> reporter: todays news coming just days after the cdc relaxed its guidance on mask-wearing california, oregon, and washington today saying mask mandates will soon end in schools. new yorks governor announced the same yesterday. today, some connecticut students returned to class maskless >> they were so excited today to not have to wear the mask. >> reporter: just two weeks ago, pfizer said it was postponing seeking fda authorization for a vaccine for kids 6 months to 4 years old after trials s...

Russia, and russia hashoing sd boxing matches theres news tonight about the covid vaccine and children a new study casting doubt on the effectiveness of the pfizer vaccine in children 5 to 11 our kate snow has more on that tonight. >> reporter: for parents of young children, unsettling news new data from new york state shows the only covid vaccine children 5 to 11 can take, made by pfizer, offers almost no protection against infection. the findings have not been peer-reviewed, but researchers ...

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Basically saying with regard to the pfizer and moderna vaccines. j&j a little different. theyre basically saying if you are an adult 18 or older you should get a booster if you received the j&j vaccine at least two months after the single dose. jake, you know, again, who is considered vulnerable? lets put up this list. people who have all sorts of different pre-existing conditions including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, obesity. jake, when you do the math on this youre talking p...

The intensive care unit, and leading to death in the hospital. >> all right. athena jones in new york city, thanks so much. joining us to discuss cnns chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. any second the cdc advisory panel could vote on authorizing boosters for the moderna vaccine and johnson & johnson vaccine. we just got the first match of data on pfizers booster efficacy. what is the significance of all of this? >> well, this is interesting, jake. what we had heard from pfizer was m...

From pfizer show a booster dose of the companys vaccine is 95.6% effective. meanwhile the cdc says more people are getting booster doses than are getting their first dose convincing more of the 64 million people who are eligible for a shot but havent gotten one to get one will be key to slowing covids spread. key to slowing covid spread, vaccinating some 28 million children ages 5 to 11 some of whom have suffered gravely from the virus. >> fundamentally weve seen over the last 18 months that cov...

Today more mixed messages on covid boosters. cnn has learned that some top federal health officials now want the white house to scale back its booster plan, which is due to roll out in just a couple of weeks. cnns elizabeth cohen is here with us. what have you learned, elizabeth? >> ana, when the white house announced a few weeks ago that the booster rollout was going to start september 20th, it had a lot of people scratching their heads about why they were making that announcement when the fda ...