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Just coming up to past six. the rapid spread of covid among school children makes it inevitable that their education will be further disrupted. thats the warning from the governments leading medical advisors. they were making the case to mps for vaccinating pupils aged 12 and over, as the roll—out begins in schools across england and scotland. professor chris whitty said cases among the age group were high. there is definitely a substantial transmission happening in this age group _ transmissi...

Of the pandemic than were born, marking the first time the states population declined. to the alarming numbers out of georgia now, covid deaths have risen nearly a thousand percent since august 1. on average, 94 georgians are dying every day, according to the states department of health. my colleague nbcs stephanie stanton joins us from atlanta. pretty shocking numbers, that escalation is remarkable, stephanie. what are you hearing on this? >> reporter: indeed. good afternoon to you, alex. hea...

About the business and hes telling the atlanta business journal that about a third of the customers they go to the chick-fil-a drive-through actually leave because the line are so long and thats because on average you wait about nine minutes per stop at chick-fil-a when you wait and the drive-through. however, they are still tops in the industry for customer service and for order accuracy. here is a stats of the night, chick-fil-a on average, and store on average for chick-fil- polls and about f...

Severe breakthrough cases do happen, they tend to be in older, sicker people. >> reporter: misinformation, fear mongering, swirl around breakthrough infections. the vaccinated who still catch covid. the science shows the vaccine will not necessarily protect you, its not protecting many people. >> reporter: so not true. heres a fact. those very rare breakthrough cases who suffer severe symptoms tend to be older. 73 on average. and have multiple other conditions like diabetes or heart disease, acc...

Getting worse, that we are living through what we will seat more frequently. in newjersey, youre from one official who said that new jersey has already had for 100 year storms in the last two decades. and talking about him landing there in queens and no doubt he will be looking at some of the basement apartments were people were living. those are part of new york now the people are questioning if its safe to even live any more. there is already a housing crisis in new york but there is just a hu...

Venues. they ever become the incubators and accelerators for the great tech boom in new york city, so what wouldnt surprise me is if our big experiment with remote work is recasting our office towers and office buildings, which are located in the most central and best locations served by transit and trains in the densest part of our cities, if they came back with socialized connectivity and actually more residents and more affordable housing. >> when you look globally, its fair to say that the g...

What wouldnt surprise me is if our big experiment with remote work is recasting our office towers and office buildings, which are located in the most central and best locations served by transit and trains in the densest part of our cities, if they came back with socialized connectivity and actually more residents and more affordable housing. >> when you look globally, its fair to say that the great trend of urbanization -- weve already crossed, i think 50% of the world now lives in cities -- th...

Plan for september. less than a day after dr. anthony fauci said -- >> i would not at all be surprised that the adequate full regimen for vaccination will likely be three doses. >> reporter: as the delta variant drives new covid cases in the united states to nearly 170,000 a day, on average, new data shows a third so-called booster dose of the covid mrna vaccine provides more protection against the virus. >> theres no doubt, from the data, from the israeli study, that the boosts that are being n...

Another study showed the risk of infection fell up to 68%, 7 to 13 days after a third dose. and by as much as 84% after 14 to 20 days. >> reporter: president joe biden announced in late august -- >> this booster program is going to start here september the 20th. pending approval of the fda and the cdc committee. of outside experts. >> reporter: but federal health officials now warning the white house they may not have enough data on the moderna vaccine by then to recommend boosters for anyone ot...

Announced friday it finished submitting its data on booster doses to the fda so iits unclef that data will be efficient enough to okay modernas vaccine boosters by september 20th. athena jones, cnn, new york. anne is a professor in the department of epidemiology at ucla fielding school of public health. she joins me now from los angeles. good to see you. um, i -- just among my own circle of people, there is confusion about boosters. i think its because it seems every other day, there is a repo...