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Parents nationwide are waiting to get their kids vaccinated for covid, and this morning we're one step closer to that happening, after pfizer anoupsed that its vaccine is safe and effective for kids ages 5 to 11. now it's up to the fda to weigh in. we're here to say thanks to 200 kids who participated in vaccine trials. that's how we got this data, including 250 who participated at the children's hospital in colorado. joining me now one of those kids, 9-year-old pfizer trial participant, diamo gregory and his dad greg also with us. daimo i start with you, you helped so many kids by doing this....

Ver pack has already said. that's probably a likely scenario. i think we're going to have to go to lower age groups and may even need universal third boosters. >> so drug companies with very little consideration with some of these recommendations, exactly what we don't need during a pandemic in a time of so much misinformation. if the pfizer vaccine does get approved, did thauz mean that the people who originally got pfizer are the only ones eligible, or can anyone get it? >> the recommendation, i believe, will be for a third immunization. it's not only a booster, and the problem with mixing u...

Medicine. >> the fda, the cdc, they're both looking at these shots. now pfizer is submitting a request to authorize it for vaccines. can you just tell us what's happening and where we're going? because with all these different meetings, all these different agencies, people are just more confused. >> yeah, what's going on, stephanie, is that there's not consensus in the scientific community on the need for boosters and what age cutoff you consider this and for what populations, then it's confused by the white house and the way they're doing the communications and then these company press releas...

Who got vaccinated in january had a two-fold increase risk of breakthrough infection compared to those who were vaccinated in april. however, this is based on research conducted in israel. some critics have said that this study just wasn't big enough, that there are lots of questions about this. in fact, fda staff has not yet taken a position on whether booster shots should be required, saying that there isn't enough evidence that's been verified. other top public health officials have said the focus instead should be, hallie, on getting people the first dose rather than trying to get, you kno...

Data that came in late yesterday for their presentation tomorrow to the fda advisory committee that shows that people who received boosters, particularly, hallie, those 60 and older, actually had a ten-fold reduction of risk relative to people who did not get boosters of severe disease. so, the reason i'm saying that, in plain english, it does look like that third shot has really done this -- countrywide now, third shot really does protect against severe disease. outstanding questions, though? we've always talked, hallie, about the protection of these vaccines against death. we don't have any ...