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They need adults, they are dependent on adults to step up. how long must all lives be stilted at home and work waiting on people who insist on making themselves and others sick? the question now is with the fda approval and the wave of mandates, will that make the difference? lets take it to a better mind. former fda commissioner under trump, dr. steven hahn. good to see you back, doc. >> hi, chris. thanks for having me. >> fda approval. do you believe this could be something that creates a mass...

Expanded. but remember, the process while very, very rigorous for adults is even more so when it comes to children as it should be. remember, there are a number of different approaches to studying the vaccine in children. theres de-escalation, meaning youre going down in age and waiting for the 5 to 11 group. theres different dosing strategies making sure theyre giving the kids the minimum amount of vaccine thats sufficient to produce the immune response. to specifically answer your question we ...

The safe and efficacy of this vaccine. >> reporter: they expect this to be a game changer. now administration officials tell cnn that full approval could come as early as this week. >> for businesses and universities that have been thinking about putting vaccine requirements in place in order to create safer spaces for people to work and learn, i think that this move from the fda when it comes will actually help them to move forward with those kind of plans. >> reporter: currently the covid-19 v...

Vaccine followed by a booster perhaps if necessary. but there are americans getting the vaccine last december. so thats a full eight, nine months ago from today. so at what point would pfizer then understand and know whether or not a booster was necessary? can you forecast that? >> so pfizer has been talking about waeng immunity. there have been many publications of waning many unity. you have to have the time that goes by. six, seven, eight months is a time when immunity wanes and you have to w...

Rise. in florida the number of people dying from covid every day is at its highest point of the entire pandemic. and as cnns nick watt reports, more local officials all over the country especially in florida are denying governors block on mask mandates. >> reporter: the pfizer vaccine now fully approved for people 16 and over. >> this is a pivotal moment for our country in the fight against the pandemic. the public can be confident that this vaccine meets the fdas gold standard for safety, effec...

Through. one thing that the white house wanted to make threw clear throughout this process is that they were not interfering, they were not pressuring the fda in any way to approve this vaccine. they let that process play out independently on its own. that is exactly whats happened. because of that independent process, theres certainly a hope inside the white house that this now makes it irrefutable for anybody who wants to question the safety and effectiveness of this vaccine, that the fda went...

>> i cant theyre completely different we dont know the effectiveness of masks against the delta. they clearly add something but thats never been scientifically studied against delta secondly we know how the vaccine is doing against delta and its down from 990% to 50% because over time the effectiveness decreases so clearly there is a need for a booster and clearly that need increases if youre an elderly group or immunocompromised or if your healthcare will worker like me on the front line over t...

Them to land any planes there were 70 planes are neither that meant they couldnt take off from kabul, those 10000 people cant just sit there yesterday, what could possibly go wrong next. now im inciting cannot leave. ainsley: there are critics on both sides of the aisle, theyre not upset with joe biden for ending the war is the way that he didnt leave them behind so many americans and leaving behind so many afghan allies and their families and what it means for them in the future with the taliba...

Its going to help convince some of the unvaccinated? >> andrea, the way they made is call is sort of on the order they did the emergency use authorization. it was pfizer first, then moderna and johnson & johnson. so pfizer was the first one to submit the data they needed, which in this case was six months of data after people got vaccinated, looking for any effects and looking for effectiveness, efficacy. they got the data and now they analyzed it, looked at manufacturing facilities and they gav...

And hes getting booed for it which is extraordinary. it shows how this has taken momentum on its own. >> this polarization, leo, is impacting the military. good luck instituting this vaccine mandate, right? >> well see. the military has fallen in line in the past. were supposed to get fda approval of one of the vaccines tomorrow. that will ease some of the transition here. look, theres still a lot of friction, still a lot of folks who dont trust it and dont want it. we are seeing some pockets of...