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 fda's 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 soon. that is because as of this weekend the country is back to averaging 1,000 plus deaths a day from covid. that grim figure hasn't been this high since march. in florida over the weekend, hospitalizations set a new record for the entire pandemic with more than 17,000 men, women and children in covid units, icus and ers across the state. nationally new cases are averaging close to 150,000 a day. that's nearly ten times what