doctor jeremy leven front page of the newspaper this morning, age limit lowered for pfizer vaccines and this is the russian washington post. fda has approved use for use 12-15. what's the scientific take away? >> this is very good news. viruses spread through a population and then they find safe haven where they can swirl around and mutate. what that means when i say mutates is that when they are in any part of the population they start to change naturally and as we've seen, for example, in hotspots likeha terrible disasts that you seen in india where new variants arise from mutations you want to ensure that that type of opportunity for this virus to change its behavior and changes profile, changes infectivity does not arrive. so now with the kids this is just great news because we can not only ensure that children can go to parties and they can meet others and go to school safely buto also that you and u can prevent clearly the illnesses that do occur and all those less than in adults by far but you can ensure that the virus is not given a safe haven and you can begin to address what i

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