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Climb, the fully vaccinated, not moving quickly enough just shy of 167 million. still barely 50% of us morgan chesky starts our coverage >> reporter: tonight, as covid cases surge yet again, the fda looks to speed up its timeline for booster shots. the agency will authorize a third dose of both pfizer and moderna vaccines for the immunocompromised as early as tomorrow, according to two sources familiar with the plan the urgency fuelled by the delta variant as the twofold covid fight continues na...

Green light an additional vaccine shot for the immunocompromised. >> that actually encompasses a relatively small proportion of the population, around 3% or so. >> so what about boosters for the rest of us? >> we believe sooner or later you will need a booster for durability of protection. we are preparing for the eventuality of doing that. meantime in franklin, tennessee. >> youll never be allowed in public again. >> after a school board vote for a mask mandate, members, doctors, nurses harasse...

Equity. doctor, we were talking when we first came on the air about the other big news today, the expected announcement from the fda about the booster shots of the immunocompromised and how big of an announcement and how wide is the universe of the people who would benefit from the shots. >> thank you for having me, garrett. this population of the immunocompromised people represents 3% of the population and among the most vulnerable along with children under 12 who are ineligible to be vaccinate...

Where they live. >> masking is, i think, a lot of us would say is something pretty small that we can do in order to prevent all these negative consequences. >> nearly 99% of the u.s. population lives in counties where people should be wearing masks indoors, according to new cdc guidance. the fda expected very soon to green light an additional vaccine shot for the immunocompromised. >> that actually encompasses a relatively small proportion of the population. around 3% or so. >> reporter: so what...

Careful in studying this, s studying who will benefit from this, what the potential harms are to the transplanted organs, et cetera. >> we know that the cdc advisory committee is meeting tomorrow to discuss potential boosters, not just for the immunocompromised but for everyone. how far behind do you expect that will come and what do we need to hear out of that meeting? >> yeah, so i think there are sort of two major areas of boosters that we need to hear about these days, right. one is for peop...

Um -- >> game changer. >> it is. the kids are definitely sicker than they have been. >> so, a lot to talk about tonight. including, how effective masks are at keeping kids safe in school. well talk to a pediatric infectious disease specialist who studied more than a million school students and staff in north carolina about what the research actually found. we begin, though, with cnns kaitlan collins at the white house. so what more do we know about this booster decision? >> so anderson, this i...

Delta has thrown another wrinkle in here. we have no look and see with delta now becoming the vast majority of virus in the u.s. is that going to affect the way in which this slow waning of immune response is going to be necessary to address? i can assure you and everybody watching that this is a topic of intense daily investigation by the fda, the cdc, the nih and others trying to assess whats the right decision to make. as of right now it looks as if even with delta, our current vaccines are h...

Given, of course, we have seen that about a third of the people who are eligible to get a vaccine in the u.s. did not actually get one so there is not that herd immunity that doctors were hoping the u.s. could achieve. when it comes to the general population getting vaccines, what theyre studying for that is the efficacy and when it starts to wane. that is still something, anderson, that they are looking into. they are trying to make a judgment on when that happens. we have seen moderna and pfiz...

Same chance of miscarriage with or without the vaccine that your pregnancy is actually safer with the vaccine, that does take time to accumulate that data. i think your point is actually well taken and could be applied to the design of trials. because thats what were talking about. we didnt have enough pregnant women and issues of safety of including pregnant women in trials but this pandemic has illustrated we need to do a better job with that and do a better job of thinking how were including ...

The authorization, which -- which right now, is just for two shots and thats why doctors cant offer a third shot, at this point, because thats not what the fda has authorized. then, cdc has to vote on that and make a recommendation about whether or not to follow that authorization from the fda. and conveniently, the cdc does have a meeting with its vaccine advisers scheduled for friday. and so, there could be a vote coming out of that. and so, you could see this start to move quickly for some of...