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Was safe and effective. l let's take a look at the basic here. pfizer did a clinical trial of nearly 2,000 children ages 5 to 11 and found that the vaccine was 90.7% effective at keeping those children from becoming sick with covid-19. now the full fda needs to weigh in, needs to say whether or not this shot ought to get emergency use authorization. after that, next week advisers to the u.s. centers for disease control will weigh in, will say whether they give a green light and then the cdc chief herself will weigh in on whether or not it should get a green light. if everyone gives their okay,...

We meant is in a loving way, but vaccinating children helps the whole family and the community. let's take a look at where we are in the process of authorizing this vaccine for children. they found that this vaccine was 90.7% effective from children getting sick from covid-19. the fda gave their thumbs up. now the cd c as dvisors have to give their okay. that could all happen and be done by sort of the middle of next week or so. so dr. anthony fauci says he is optimistic -- that's the word he used -- optimistic that shots could be going into children's arms sometime in the first two weeks of n...

Advisers yesterday. the vaccine is 90.7% effective at keeping children from getting sick with covid-19. so now that the fda advisers have given the thumbs up, the fda itself and then an advisory group to the panel and the cdc, and the cdc will have to review it. that can all happen between now and the end of next week. if they give their okay, dr. fauci says he's optimistic children could get shots as early as next week. children ages 5 to 11, they're not getting the same dose that adults and adolescents have been getting. they're getting one-third the dose. jim, erica. >> elizabeth cohen with...

Children will be vaccinated with pfizer, have the opportunity to be vaccinated with pfizer sometime in the first two weeks of november. so let's look at the data that the experts will be looking at today. the data, according to pfizer, shows for children ages 5 to 11, that this vaccine is 90.7% effective against symptomatic covid-19. what they did is they gave about 1300 children the vaccine in a clinical trial and over time 3 of them became sick with covid-19. they gave 763 children a placebo that does nothing. a far smaller number, not 50/50, a far smaller number and 16 of those children bec...

Lost track of brian laundrie at one point thinking his mother was him. resources, money, time all wasted as the lone person of interest in gabby petito's death got away. we begin with elizabeth cohen and this key vaccine meeting going on right now. elizabeth, walk us through what's happening today. the data they are looking at and what happens next. >> anna, all eyes right now on this advisory committee. vaccine experts who advise the u.s. food and drug administration, these are outside experts. they have no skin in this game. they are just wanting to look at the data, so let's look big pictur...