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offit, thank you for your time.appreciate it. >> eva, over to you. >> thank you. >>> turning to afghanistan. this morning was the original deadline for american troops to withdraw from the country. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell is there with the new timetable and why u.s. forces are on high alert. good morning, ian. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, eva. may the 1st was that original deadline. president biden pushing it back. the taliban militants here haven't recognized that amid fears that they could use the opportunity to try and attack u.s. forces as they leave the country. overnight at least 21 killed, dozens more rushed to hospitals after a suicide truck bomb blast in afghanistan. it comes as america's withdrawa. amid fears the taliban may be preparing for more attacks. america's signing a deal with the militants it went to war against. >> a return to violence would be, one, senseless and tragic, but make no mistake, we have the military means to respond forcefully to any type of attacks agains

paul offit, there were a couple of things. answer a question specifically about if we need two doses, one or two doses. and so that was interesting. and then he actually did a video at the end of january where he specifically talked about the fact that, you know, there are one in a million side effects of a lot of these vaccines that we have now, but they turn up within six weeks. that's what all of them have in common. so that statement and looking to him combined with, you know, letting time pass and those six weeks will pass and people were doing overall really well, that made a difference for me. >> there are questions. what do we know or not? that six-week point is really important. so elizabeth, stay with me, i want to bring in the doctor, because he's here now. in addition to his work at the children's hospital in pennsylvania, he is a member of the fda's vaccine advisory committee. so doctor, you hear elizabeth talk about all these reasons, and one of them involved you in terms of why she changed her mind and decided t

paul offit, director of the vaccine education center at the children hospital of philadelphia and a board febmember for the fda vaccine authorization committee. maybe it's just me as the mom of two young kids but i can take my mask off now walking with them or inside with them. but they're 3 and 5 so they need to wear theirs, right? kids are still at risk, no? >> right. and i think at some level we're all still at some risk. if i was -- if i'm in my office and i know there's fellows and residents in my office all vaccinated i'm perfectly comfortable not wearing a mask. if i have people over and they're all vaccinated i'm comfortable not wearing a mask. if i walk into a grocery store and see people masked and unmasked, i would have to assume that all those people who are not wearing a mask are vaccinated, which i think is a big assumption. this is the honor system. so i'm still going to wear a mask if i'm in a public indoor place and i see people who aren't wearing a mask who i don't know whether or not they received the vaccine or not. >> you're so right. that word you used. make the assu

paul offit, the director of the food and drug administration visor committee and from philadelphia, thanks for being with us. why hesitancy by parents for the covid-19 vaccine? >> i think parents should be skeptical of anything that they put into their children's bodies. there was a study that was done by pfizer for children. 2300 children were divided. the vaccines induced excellent immune responses. there were 18 cases of covid in that study. i'm sure that the parents were very happy that their children were in the vaccine group and not the placebo group. that way their children had a 0% chance of suffering from covid. host: you are the author of the book deadly choices, how it threatens us all. who is behind this movement? >> it is a well-funded movement that is specifically trying to provide misinformation to the public to scare them away from vaccines. i have been writing about the anti-vaccine movement for years. there is nothing that they could have done that surprised me, but this surprises me. you have a pandemic that has infected many people. it is on its way to killing as many a

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paul offit director of children's hospital and he's a member of the fda vaccines advisory.nks, as usual, for joining us. tell our viewers why it is so critically important for all of us to understand the origin of this deadly -- this deadly virus. >> right. there's still a lot we don't know and the more we know that will help us in the future when the next pandemic arrives. what is clear is this is a bad coronavirus that has made its debut in the population in china in the wuhan area in the end of 2019. that we know, the question is why. was it because in the market they were selling fried bats and it entered the human population by eating fried bats or drinking bat soup or drinking bat tea? or was it a laboratory working with the coronavirus with poor containment or poor practices with how they were handling the virus that a lab worker or workers got sick and that's how it entered the human population or as dr. redfield offered, and i think this was extraordinarily unlikely or that the lab manipulated the virus to make it more likely to make it contagious. i don't think th

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offit, as always. >>> thanks to all of you for joining us today.oppy harlow. >> isn't it great to report good news about the coronavirus? >> it's great. you're always a glass-half-full guy, sciutto. >> i'm jim sciutto. at this hour with our colleague kate bolduan starts right now. >>> hello everyone. i'm kate bolduan. here are the top things we're watching. former president trump's legal woes got a lot worse. new york's attorney general now joining a criminal investigation into trump's family business. truth or trump? a decision moment for house republicans. will they support a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the capitol insurrection. >>> coming to her own rescue. the terrifying moment a young girl fights off an alleged kidnapper as she was waiting for the school bus. we'll show you that incredible video. thanks for being here, everybody. let's start with the new legal troubles for former president trump at this hour. a major development that cnn was first to report. new york's attorney general is joining a criminal investigation u

paul offit says we need to reach 80% immunity. he worries we'll see a surge in cases next winter.re not really close to 80% now. as well as things are going with vaccinations, we're nowhere near 80%. how concerned are you about a possible surge, and what would that look like? >> we need to do this one person at a time. we need to get more and more people vaccinated. we've seen from other experiences in the uk as well as in israel, that the more people vaccinated, the less disease you have. i do believe as our disease rates are starting to come down, which i'm cautiously optimistic about, it is because our vaccine efforts in part are rising up. and so i am -- i do think that we need to be cautious and to make sure we get as many people vaccinated as we can. >> but is it -- is a winter surge possible if we're not careful? >> i think we have to be humbled with this virus. i think we have variants ahead of us. we have not full immunity in this population yet. so i think anything is possible, which is why i think we should focus on getting people protected and vaccinated now to do as m

paul offit on earlier this week who makes the point, a hopeful one, which i don't mind emphasizing thati think 60% for adults. but when you add that to the figure of people who were exposed and have some immunity and were not vaccinated, we're closer as a country to herd immunity than some of those numbers show. perhaps 50%, 60%. and i just wonder if you subscribe to that view as well. >> well, i think that what's happening around us is sort of going to be what's going to tell us whether herd immunity is achieved or not. i don't think we really know what herd immunity is for this novel coronavirus. we had lots of predictions based on other viruses and infections we know but we don't for sure know. so i think just watching the numbers go down. is that because it's getting warmer and people are outside and transmitting it less or is it due to the fact that we've achieved this level of natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity that's going to prevent transmission? >> i want to talk about schools and masks because you've got utah and texas now banning mask mandates in schools. it's mand

paul offit talks about the availability of covid vaccines for children.lso take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. back to work week for the house and senate as lawmakers return to washington. a very busy stretch between now and memorial day. congress and the white house debating a multitrillion dollar infrastructure plan on the table by the democrats. there is an alternative proposal by the republicans. other issues include capitol hill security, a january 6 commission, election reform bill in the senate, and threats from china. monday, may 10. president biden meeting with --

paul offit and i want to go first to allison barber in georgia where the state is allowing anyone 12r to get it. allison, why are they doing that? >> georgia's actually one of three states already allowing 12 to 15-year-olds to get vaccinated with the pfizer covid vaccine if they want to. the other two are arkansas and delaware. so some health care systems within the state are planning to do that until the cdc advisory board will issue additional guidance, but the georgia department of public health said they made the decision after the fda's emergency authorization on monday that they would go ahead and let those 12 to 15-year-olds get vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine at a dph-run or associated vaccination site like this one as long as they had a proper consent form from a parent or legal guardian. they were worried if they told children and their families to get a vaccine yesterday or this morning before that cdc meeting that they wanted to come back in 24 or 48 hours that they might not come back at all. they figured out they'd want to get vaccinated in the age range get the pro

paul offit talks about the availability of covid vaccines for children. we will also take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. back to work week for the house and senate as lawmakers return to washington. a very busy stretch between now and memorial day. congress and the white house debating a multitrillion dollar infrastructure plan on the table by the democrats. there is an alternative proposal by the republicans. other issues include capitol hill security, a january 6 commission, election reform bill in the senate, and threats from china. monday, may 10. president biden meeting with -- congressional leaders on wednesday, the same day liz cheney is expected to be ousted as chair of the republican conference, number three in the leadership. we will discuss these, but we begin with that new advisory by the cdc. people can get infected by inhaling very fine, aerosol particles that may carry the virus. how does this affect your decision to return to the workplace? will

offit. they answered my questions with patience and allowed me to move to optimism by the time my children's vaccines were due. from that experience i became even more committed to ensuring that our organization builds educational and social media efforts that brings science to the public so that they, too, can make informed decisions on vaccines for their own families. we've learned that the two things needed to build confidence are transparency and respect. since the beginning of our pandemic, our organization has focused on not encouraging people just to blindly accept a vaccine but to learn about what's in place to ensure safety of our vaccines. we called on companies who develop vaccines to hit all milestones in the development, keeping in mind that some steps could be done simultaneously and that would speed up the process without compromising the safety or efficacy as many members have discussed this morning. we also called on the fda to adhere to the normal review process, ensuring t

paul offit is from the children's hospital of philadelphia. in the interview, talking about statistics. some numbers from the american academy of pediatrics. 14% of all covid cases in the u.s., children were the ones who contracted covid. 3.8 5 million children they were 1.2% to 3.1% of total reported hospitalizations for covid and between zero and point 21% of all covid-19 deaths -- and .21 percent of all covid deaths. it appears that severe illness due to covid rare among children. there is an urgent need, they write, to take more data on long-term impacts on children, including the way the virus may hurt the long-term physical health of children and its emotional and until health effects -- and mental health effects. that from the american academy of pediatrics. we went to get your thoughts on this idea of vaccinating children. we will keep the numbers on your screen as we hear from danny in farmington, missouri. good morning. caller: host: host: good morning to you. i don't see this as anything short of the smallpox or measles vaccination.