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For the pfizer and moderna vaccines johnson & johnson announced they also plan to give data to the fda showing that a booster shot for its vaccine dramatically increases antibodies against the virus eight months after the first dose. the hurdle facing the administration and the country still remains. peoples hesitancy to get vaccinated as the delta variant spreads. new infections are up 12% and hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. 77% of americas icu beds are in use with states like alabama and a...

Who are ignoring science, and then i saw -- and i want to share with people a shocking headline from a local pennsylvania paper today, the headline says pregnant, unvaccinated and intubated. doctors are alarmed by a rise in cases. pregnant women with covid are 15 times more likely to die, 14 times more likely to need to be intubated, 22 times more likely to have a pre-term birth. when you look at those figures and you look at the misinformation that is driving a lot of the hesitancy, those early...

In addition to that, the fda actually looked at the manufacturing processes and chemistry aspects of the vaccine that werent looked at in as great of detail when the emergency use authorization was made. the key thing from my perspective is by issuing the emergency use authorization, we have saved lives. the use of the vaccine for that approval as a result of that approval has really led to many, many lives being saved. >> doctor, theres a question, if you hang out in lets say vaccine skeptical ...

Now waiting for flights inside of the kabul airport zone which is more than 15,000 less people than when we went on the air yesterday. a source telling cnn the majority of those who are waiting for flights are afghans. cnn has also learned that special immigrant visa applicants, those afghans who helped u.s. troops during the war are not permitted on to the airport after being told not to come there on monday. still, the gates to the airport remain closed. a huge decision point for president b...

Are unvaccinated, that theyll leave nursing homes and just go to a different type of facility >> yeah. you know, theres a lot of hesitancy, and if we cant get enough workers, it will be very hard to care for the residents. >> reporter: sanders fears the return of dark days, when families were forced to say good-bye to isolated loved ones. >> im not going to be that person. im not going to let that happen to my mom. >> reporter: catie beck, nbc news, austin, texas. were back in a moment with wh...

Result of that approval as led to many many lives being saved. >> doctor gone, day theres a question, if you hang out in vaccine skeptical social media spaces which i sometimes do you out of curiosity, you will see that it is a fairly frequent talking point, this idea about emergency use authorization. it does get invoked. you can hear from people who are vaccine hesitant. and i guess the real question, i kind of its open empirical question, about whether it matters. in terms of peace ups hesita...

Approved? >> im still thinking. >> whats the hesitancy? >> im just not too comfortable with it yet. >> therein lies the challenge for doctors and public health officials who get those who decided, even with the approval, that theyre going to stand back, i guess wait or maybe not get the vaccine at all. right now in florida, having both vaccines about 52% of the population, so its a long way to go in a state where, i think, every county now has started school and the kids are back in school, and,...

I think it may tip them for getting vaccinated. for businesses and universities thinking about putting vaccine requirements in place in order to create safer spaces for people to work and learn, i think this move will help them move forward with the plans. >> lets bring in public health finish a fellow with the american college of preventive medicine. nice to see you this morning, doctor. >> thank you for joining us. if pfizers vaccine is approved today, as we believe it will be. what are you lo...

Prediction, we will see a continued coordination with the taliban to extend that deadline. but were also going to see a whole lot more people evacuated in the last -- in the next eight days before the 31st. >> and look, i get -- i get -- i 100% understand confusion and hesitancy to talk about maybe how many americans they believe are still on the ground in afghanistan. i think what youre seeing from the reporters in the room in the briefing is that they are surprised that they dont have a more s...

Wave of the pandemic. less than 2% of the population is fully vaccinated. hospitals being forced to turn people away because they dont have enough beds. cnns scott mcclain is live in nairobi, kenya. what is being done to a combat the lingering hesitancy out there? >> reporter: the government is trying to convince people to take the shot. what unfortunately seems to be changing minds is the fact that hospitals are filling up or full already. people are dying. last week we visited one hospital a f...