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To get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot. >> reporter: key fda and cdc committees will discuss approvals with dr. fauci predicting boosters will become widespread eventually. >> i believe that ultimately the real proper regimen will turn out to be the original two shots plus a boost. >> reporter: but health experts are extremely concerned about the millions who still haven't rolled up their sleeves. >> our highest priority still is getting the unvaccinated vaccinated. the highest priority is not getting boosters. >> reporter: as outbreaks continue nationwide. the new o...

670,000 flags planted on the national mall this weekend representing almost every american covid death to date. a truly staggering loss of humanity, especially considering it's all happened in just the past 20 months. but there is some encouraging news. new infections have declined in the past two weeks, but this comes as the battle over vaccinations and mask mandates rages on. cbs' anthony pura has more. good evening, anthony. >> reporter: good evening, errol. there is no county with more people than los angeles, and it's just become the first to require proof of vaccinations to go to or work...

Coaches due to covid protocol sunday. while in alabama overall deaths outnumbered births for the first time in 2020. a gap never before recorded state officials say, many included in the more than 670,000 white flags dotting the national mall in washington, d.c. to memorialize all who have lost their lives to covid-19 in the u.s. so far. >> monica joins us from the white house. what about boosters for the other two vaccine options? >> reporter: the fda is still waiting on data from moderna and johnson & johnson to make recommendations on additional doses for americans who got those shots initi...

>> well, he was basically responding to a statement made by eight physician scientists including me, including the head of the fda and the head of the cdc, saying we have looked at the data and it looked as if boosters were going to be a good thing for americans to start to utilize, recognizing in that speech he did say cdc and fda a's advisory process those kick in first. i'm a little troubled about all of the buzz happening right now about whether the process was perfect. of course, it's not perfect. no process ever is. the goals here are to try to protect americans from dying from this dise...

Where mask mandates haven't been uniform, where vaccine rates are lower than in other parts of the country, and that's the horrible collateral damage to letting this virus burn through this country unimpeded. it's just not people who acquire covid who will die. it can be kids. it can be people having heart attacks or strokes. >> right. yes, i was thinking about -- and we just showed this, all of those white flags down on the national mall. 670,000 white flags for each individual american who has died from covid, and i wonder how many of those people could have been saved if we weren't living w...