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Patients 16 and up. to borrow a phrase from the development effort, that happened at warp speed, the process taking only 40% of the usual time. >> well, this and other vaccines have met the fdas rigorous scientific standards for emergency use authorization as the first fda approved covid vaccine, the public can be confident that this meets the fda gold standards for safety, effectiveness and manufacturing quality that we require for an approved product. >> words that could not come a day too soo...

The usual time. >> well, this and other vaccines have met the fdas rigorous scientific standards for emergency-use authorization. as the first fda-approved covid-19 vaccine, the public can be confident that this vaccine meets the fdas gold standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality that we require for an approved product. >> words that could not come a day too soon. that is because, as of this weekend, the countrys back to averaging a thousand-plus deaths a day from covid. th...

Florida, they are peaking today a number of doctors stage a walkout. figuring correctly, that it would be very much a visual. of the people we need and depend on right now, especially in florida, more than any other, they are so sick and tired of being sick and tired, because they are seeing unvaccinated floridians stream into their ers and icus, that this is the way they decided to get attention. do you ever allow yourself the luxury of this experiment to think about how we got to this level of...

>> i think health care personnel, time will tell to see how many people previously unvaccinated will see this full approval given by the fda to pfizers vaccine as really the next step in convincing them to get the shot. we know it capital come soon enough approval. new cases of covid doubled in the last week. icus in incredibly short supply. whats concerning are pediatric cases. we know nationwide, 180,000 cases of pediatric covid have been reported, thats the highest number since last years win...

Hope you dont have a heart attack or a car accident. hope you dont fall off of a roof today. you would be in deep trouble trying to find the deep trouble that you need. >> >> lets turn now to alabama where covid cases are spiking. vaccine ratts there remain below 50% and hospitals have run out of icu beds. let me talk to the top alabama state health officer there. the icus there are in really bad shape, can you give us a sense of what is happening in your hospitals? >> weve been really under wat...

Growing problem. just in florida, florida, texas, mississippi, alabama, the icus are at 90%. theyre 10% shy of full capacity which tells you the crisis thats unfolding here and throughout the south. >> providing a great transition for me to morgan chesky. kerry, i know you have to go so i appreciate you being with us this hour. morgan, lets bring you in the conversation. texas capacity, icus there, schools opening today, kids heading back to school for first time just like in florida, theres bee...

Into the icus there because theyre not vaccinated. how could this affect things, the breaking news that the fda has authorized full approval of the pfizer vaccine? >> what we saw here, doctors are frustrated and they gathered in this parking lot where i am, more than a hundred or so, gathered here to say enough is enough. and this is coming at the same time as you say with the breaking news of the fda eliminating the emergency use authorization, and nows having approval for the pfizer vaccine. s...

Of course, we know it is not possible in the states that have explicitly banned that. >> heidi, you are talking about what is happening around the country. we will bring in kerry sanders in south florida as the icus as i understand it are filling up. i saw you on "today" show where the doctors and the nurses are airing the frustration with treating unvaccinated patients now coming into the hospitals day by day and what more can you tell us about it? >> well, geoff, really for the first time, we ...

The community, i see that in a lot of public areas theres people -- people are not masking up throughout our county. im not sure if a lot of the contamination occurred outside of our schools. >> and this is the pandemic affects all of us story. if you take your kids to school even if theyre over the age of 12 and theyre vaccinated but others are not wearing masks that can put others at risk. thats a broader story as is true with the vaccine story. keep in mind here, were at a 13% positivity rate...

From just last week. where do you all go from here? >> yes. remember, we chatted a couple of weeks ago. i mention, this is as bad as i have seen it. i do not know if it could get any worse. unfortunately, over the past few weeks, it did. i will give you a few examples. san antonio had no ems service for about half an hour for a week ago. our icus are full not only with covid patients but with patients with rsv, a surge of that is happening right now. and then, for the entire state, we have just ...