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It comes as hundreds of workers across the country tonight are out of job or suspended for not getting a mandatory vaccine shot. united airlines is firing up to 593 employees who didn't get vaccinated by the company's deadline. nearly 99% of united employees are vaccinated. >> while we're focused on safety and we care about the safety of our customers and our employees, this is also the right thing to do for getting our business back on track. >> reporter: more than 4,200 american airlines pilots are still unvaccinated. pilot unions for american and southwest are asking the white house for exe...

Vaccinated. i feel bad for the 593 people, the less than 1% that are going to leave, but we're focused on doing the right thing for united airlines. >> joining me right now for more on this is cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, what do you think the united example shows? >> well, it shows these are tough times, but mandates do work. you kind of hope that, with all the tough pandemic news that we've had over the past couple years that more people would have been willing to just take the vaccine now that 6 billion shots have been given around the world roughly, we have a...

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Vaccine, you're out of here permanently. susan li has more. >> united airlines making good on their vaccine mandates planning to fire 600 that have still not gotten their vaccines. united has ordered 67,000 to get their shots by this monday. 593 still haven't and have not filed for exemptions. they can still save their jobs if they can get vaccinated. surprising that 97% of the airline staff have gotten their shots. 2,000 have received exemptions and put on unpaid leave next month. you have a class action lawsuit filed by some of these suing united over discrimination. no vaccine mandates over...

Now starting the process of terminating 593 employees who didn't get the shots. those workers can still save their jobs if they opt to get vaccinated in the coming days. meanwhile, pfizer took a major step toward receiving approval of its covid vaccine for children, ages 5 to 11, submitting trial data to the fda for review after recently determining the vaccine is safe and well tolerated. nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> reporter: with millions of children now back in classrooms, izer submitted phase 3 data to the fda for vaccines 5 to 11-year-olds, crucial step to au...