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Doses of pfizer and moderna to aig weeks. right now, its three weeks for pfizer. four weeks for moderna. i guess some of that makes sense because if you have that second dose a little later on pushed back, it might prolong i guess your immunity or your defenses against the virus. would that cut down though on some side effects for people who have experienced those side effects? >> i do think theyre likely to change the dose schedule. its the ce that safety and effectiveness was not rushed. the a...

He said kids under 5 arent currently eligible for the vaccine could get it as soon as march, which would be terrific. but help our audience understand why the wait here. we know the trials have been ongoing and there were some disappointing results in terms of the actual effectiveness. but why not roll them out now and get the baseline level of immunity going? theyre going to need a third shot anyway. >> yeah, i think they really want to be methodical in the approval of vaccines for under 5 just...

Anything to put the american people in jeopardy, and theyve had a decades long track history of putting out safe vaccines, so im not so much worried about that. i think there is confusion because as you pointed out or the reporter pointed out towards the end of last year, there was not enough compelling evidence showing that the vaccines in two doses were immunogenic enough in the young kids and would have to wait for a third dose. whats happened between now and then is something called omicron,...

Covid. in other words, coming into hospital infected with covid-19 even though thats not really the reason theyre coming in. the numbers are definitely dropping dramatically in philadelphia. >> to go back to the pfizer delay, it is about effectiveness or is it about safety here? is it that the vaccine wasnt safe or was it about the vaccine not yet being proven to be effective? >> i think its just not having all the data yet. this was always going to be a vaccine. so why approve it as a two dose ...

Its a good demonstration of the range of effectiveness of the american military in the midst of these manifold crises in ukraine, iran, and china and taiwan. >> john: i want to jump to ukraine as well. troubling news out of the pentagon today, john kirby the spokesman for the pentagon saying that russia looks like it is going to mount a false flag operation as a precursor to drawing itself into war with ukraine, listen to what he said to. speak of the russians are likely to want to fabricate a p...

Months old. lets go to cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, the last couple of days ive had doctors on this show who have suggested the data on effectiveness for this younger age block wasnt clear just yet. what does the data show and when could this vaccine potentially be authorized for this age group? >> ana, so theyre right. the data is not clear and thats because pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies dont release their full data until just a few days before the fd...

Morning, many of you know that americas job machine is going stronger than ever. >> touted effectiveness of vaccinations, booster shots, and the availability of at-home covid tests, went out the end of last month. leisure and hospitality drove the numbers. 151,000 hires there, more than 100,000 at bars and restaurants, signalling that despite omicron people are vacationing, they are going out to eat and going out to drink, the businesses need workers, and people are getting back to work. adminis...

Science or health, these are decisions that are based on the fact that shes getting severe complaints from her constituents which are 90 plus percent democrats. so, this is something that i think crosses partisan lines. >> john: and whats ironic, the province of ontario and where ottawa is located, lifting the vaccine mandates since march 1st. quick in a few seconds, polling shows both sides are losers. majority of people want the truckers to go home, and the majority of people in canada think j...

Themselves. think about the careers that have been destroyed. think about the families. the school closures. think about the lack of learning. think about the people that just say im not going to college because im not going to do it from my bedroom. think about the devastating effect of people winging it from the highest office and condemning those who question them. and to think about the social media accounts that have been sidelined and now all of a sudden you find out where the origins of t...

4-year-old. let me explain what has happened here. the fdas top priority is to make sure that we have covid-19 vaccines for the population, particularly for kids. they proactively requested an opportunity to look at the data from the pfizer trial, and this is -- theyre currently in the process of studying a three-dose vaccine. and they wanted to look at the data for the two-dose portion of that. when they had the opportunity to do so, just at the end of this week, the latest data that they saw l...