thank you, sanjay and dr. leana wen. i can visualize that.t to focus on the toll covid is taking on children and their families. dwr mary suzanne whitworth, a pediatric disease specialist, said to an nbc affiliate "we've had plenty of children in the hospital, in the icu alone because one of their parents is on a ventilator somewhere else and the other one is home taking care of sick children or sick herself. it's emotionally hard to think that." i'm joined now by dr. whitworth, medical director of infectious diseases at cook children's hospital in fort worth, texas. that is just -- when i heard that, i think it's just devastating. i mean, again, this is what you and nurses and hospital r professionals see all the time. but before this delta surge did you see entire families getting sick with covid? >> i think it was different in january when we had our last surge. we didn't have quite as many children in the hospital. and it just didn't seem like the whole family was sick as much as they are now. we see more where everyone at home is sick. >

sanjay gupta, thank you. >> thanks so much, sanjay. thanks for explaining all of this. we've had a lot of breaking news on every front here today. >> that tragic news that ten innocent civilians killed in afghanistan. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> the u.s. military went from righteous strike to tragic mistake in just days. "the lead" starts right now. >>> the pentagon minutes ago admitting they got it really wrong, targeting the wrong vehicle in afghanistan, killing ten innocent civilians, including seven afghan children. how could this happen? >>> and a key fda panel moments ago rejected pfizer's request to add a booster dose of its covid vaccine for everyone. what does that mean fo

sanjay gupta. their announcements weeks ago were coming for everyone, that that did not get ahead of the science and did not put political pressure on the fda. but listen to the fda's former chief scientist this morning talking to cnn's brianna keilar. >> the cnn's committee of outside experts will be ready to start this booster program during the week of september 20. it will be easy. just show your vaccination card and you'll get a booster. >> that obviously was not the bite i wanted to run. the bite i wanted to run, the former chief scientist said what i do think was backwards and not helpful was that the white house made an announcement with a certain date before really all the data had come in before fda had had a chance to review it and before there was this public discussion that we're now going to have. so what do you make of this? >> i think it's very clear that the white house came out and they said boosters put a date on it september 20th. and i think most people sort of heard that and t

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sanjay gupta and dr. jad. so sanjay, look, president biden made it clear after your second shot eight months later, get another one that means americans not over 65 should get a booster now. that is not what happened today, right? it's not where we are. look, i'm sure a lot of people in the medical community have serious questions about this, doctors and nurses themselves because they were among the first vaccinated might feel okay, then i should be getting mine. that's not where we are. were you surprised by what happened today? >> i was only surprised because it seemed pretty preordained. you did hear this from the white house that this was happening. they even attached a date to it, september 20th. it did seem that and you obviously heard from dr. fauci, you played the sound from him. that really seemed preor tdaine. when you look at the data, people over the age of 65 at severe risk of covid, risk of severe covid, that data seemed to hold up. that's the data we were seeing for people under that age, i was

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sanjay gupta, author of the upcoming book, "world war c."a meets tomorrow, they'll have a lot to consider when it comes to boosters. how do you see this playing out? >> i really don't know. it's interesting. before all these fda meetings in the past, we had a really good inclination of how it was going to turn out before the authorization of the vaccines and all of that. but there's been a lot of back and forth. as you know, it made news when two senior vaccine scientists at fda basically said they were going to leave. we subsequently found out it was over this issue of boosters. so i think what's going to happen is there will be four wig questions that are going to have to be addressed there. we sort of lay them out here. how much is immunity really waning? pfizer says the immunity wanes about 6% every two months but stays steady for severe illness. how severe are the breakthrough infections? i think this is a big one. you could have a totally asymptomatic break think infection. i came back positive? i'm surprised. it could be that all the

sanjay gupta is joining us again. sanjay, there were two votes by the vaccine advisers today.ne of them was something of a surprise. update our viewers. >> yeah. so there were two votes. and the first vote was really basically asking the question. it was about the question of do the -- does the safety and efficacy of data support the use of recommending boosters for those 16 and older after six months after their first two shots? and that was the vote that they voted against. this was a surprise, wolf, because for a lot of people they have thought that boosters were preordaned, that this was happening. that was the message that came from the white house a couple weeks ago, september 20th you would be able to get your boosters. they said not so fast with the general population. they had a second vote asking for emergency use authorization specifically for people over the age of 65 and those who are at risk of severe covid saying could they be authorized to get this booster? and that came back as a unanimous yes. now, this is an advisory committee, so they're making this recomme

sanjay gupta.d war c: lessons from the covid-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one." sounds like a timely book, sanjay. can you walk us through what to expect from the fda meeting on these boosters? i suppose it goes without saying this is not going to get resolved tomorrow. >> no, i don't think so, jim. we have heard a lot about these fda meetings over the past year. and typically, we have a pretty good idea of how they're going to go ahead of time. i'm not so sure on this one. there is strong feelings on both sides either to boost or not to boost. let me lay out the four big questions i think they will be dealing with. keep in mind, jim, this is an advisory committee meeting, so they want to look at basically is immunity waning? are people who are vaccinated longer ago, do they have less immunity than those vaccinated more recently. people may test positive, but how symptomatic are they? how long does the booster effect last? is it just something that gives you a lot of extra protection

sanjay gupta.uncement on booster shots and how it's resonating within the fda? >> well, you know, we're not sure what the departure of the upcoming departure of these two officials really means, but i think what we've heard from people is that it's a signal of some concern within the fda that the white house coronavirus task force, the white house sort of has preordained these boosters where the fda needs to weigh in on this. and it's sort of an important point. the fda, that is what they do. they regulate these. they evaluate data. and right now, you know, it seems to many people like this is a done deal. and the fda and the cdc they got to officially weigh in on this. and i think there's a lot of back and forth on this. jeff ziens was asked specifically about this and here is what he said. >> we have also been very clear throughout that this is pending fda, conducting an independent evaluation and cdc's panel of outside experts issuing a booster dose recommendation. >> so kaitlan, they always sai

sanjay gupta.and, sanjay, we heard about data from israel suggesting that boosters were needed for months. what do these studies say? >> yeah. so let's look at this, jake. i want to put up the study. this has been making a lot of news. this is going to be discussed on friday at that vaccine meeting. here is the data out of israel. it's basically month by month saying how well protected are you if you had your vaccine in second dose in january, that's on the left side of the screen going to the right. if you had your dose in january you have lower protection than going forward. but look at this graph closely, jake. there's a couple things to point out. april seems to actually be worse off than march in terms of protection. why would a more recent set of vaccinations actually have less protection? don't know. that's curious for sure. something they're going to certainly talk about. but also those vertical lines, we're going to nerd out for a second, jake, but those are called confidence intervals. it

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sanjay gupta. sanjay, this is, i think, really on everyone's mind as we're sending our kids back to school here. more than one in four of these new infections are children. how concerned are you? how concerned should we be? >> well, the problem is we have just so much viral spread. so even though kids, as you point out, are less likely to get infected, less likely to get hospitalized, you increase viral spread in the country by that much kids are inadvertently going to get infected. this delta virus is not as forgiving. let me show you something this labor day compared to last labor day. in terms of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. 3 1/2 times more cases, 2 1/2 times more hospitalizations. almost 2 times more deaths. this labor day compared to last labor day. if you were to ask me last year at this time, shown me these numbers, i would say, i guess we didn't get to the vaccine. truth is we have a vaccine. these numbers should be a lot lower than labor day last weekend. but here we are. we talk a

sanjay gupta who happened to be a doctor himself. john, let's start with you. the white house knows this is a problem. they're trying to get a handle on it. what are they going to propose today. >> i think the way to think of this speech, in response to changing dire conditions that you mentioned, they're sliding along that continuum that starts with encouragement and ends with requirement a little bit closer to requirement. it was easy in the beginning, when people were flocking to pharmacies to get those vaccines. now you've got a hard core of reluctant, resistance, some political some superstitious, some based on disinformation and they're trying to get over that. so for example, requirements, hard requirements for federal employees and contractors of the federal government to get vaccinated as opposed to opting out by getting testing. vaccination is by far, i think sanjay will affirm this when you talk to him in a moment, is far and away the most important thing that could be done. there is le additional steps is it the plan, encouraging masking and encoura

i want to ask you this before we go, sanjay. desantis, just appointed a new surgeon general who is critical of mask wearing, lockdowns, and vaccines. he is also revising some quarantine procedures and now parents are the ones to decide if their asymptomatic children who have been exposed to someone who tested positive for the virus should quarantine or not. sanjay, should parents be making these decisions? >> i think that's a lot to put on the parents. i mean, the thing is that they don't -- they don't know. so your child has been exposed to someone who is positive for covid. so i mean, people -- what is a parent supposed to do with that information? right now, i can tell you the cdc says if -- even if a kid's vaccinated depending on their age, they might be vaccinated, they should still get tested within three to five days after that exposure. if they are positive, they should be quarantined. we know, don, we have known for a long time that people can spread this -- this virus even if they have no symptoms. so to simply say to

good to see you, sanjay. thank you very much.ctor. >>> we have breaking news this morning. the u.s. special envoy to haiti resigned just today whooefr he calls the inhumane, his word, decision to deport more than a thousand haitians from the u.s. border amid this border crisis. thousands of haitian migrants are still under that texas bridge that we have been watching. nearly a thousand have been processed and released, though, into the united states at the same time. let's go to cnn's melissa bell live in port-au-prince, haiti. you've spoken to some of the haitians who have been repatriated back to haiti. what else did this u.s. envoy say about his resignation? >> reporter: that resolution that was scathing about the policy of the biden administration. of course you mentioned those migrants who have been allowed out of the united states. the unlucky ones are the ones who have made it back here. even as we speak, there are four planes on their way to haiti with more of those migrants inside. i think it's important to look at those

sanjay gupta. sanjay, i know you have got some questions for dr. fauci. >> yeah. hey, hey, dr. fauci, good evening. thanks for being here. you know, the -- the overall hospitalizations are about two and a half-times what they were at this point last year and deaths are about two times. obviously, a terrible situation. a lot of the president's speech was about vaccines. but how long do you think we'll -- we'll actually get the impact of -- of those -- of those new vaccine mandates if they happen? is it going to be -- is it going to be in time for what we're dealing with right now? >> well, it's certainly not going to be immediate, as you know, sanjay. because you are going to have to talk about, you know, a few weeks from the time you get your first dose to the time you get your boost and then 7 to 14 days, thereafter. so we are talking about what happens today is going to have an impact maybe six or more weeks from now. so in the meantime, as you well know, we got to do both. you've got to do mitigation, at the same time as you do accelerating the vaccine program. and the mitig

sanjay gupta. her name is jjoeanne peterson.es affected by drug addiction. last year the cdc recorded 93,000 drug overdoses in the here's sanjay, how joanne peterson took her personal struggle and turned it into a movement. >> oxycontin. it was always the opiates. and then, they would turn to heroin. >> sometimes when we talk about the opioid crvcrisis, we talk at it from a policy perspective. what makes this distinctive is this is an organization that recognizes, not only the trauma to the individual, who is dealing with substance abuse, but the whole family. >> i lost a brother. ten years ago, complication of his addictions. >> reporter: joanne peterson's family had a long and difficult history with addiction. i learned when my niece passed away, the most important thing you do, is no matter what, you tell that person you love them and you're there for them. i wasn't there for her in the very end. and it haunts me. it wasn't that i didn't want to be. it was that, i knew i couldn't fix her problem or change it. you know, she ju

sanjay gupta and dr.esser the former acting director of the cdc and president and ceo of the robert woods johnson foundation. big announcements from president biden. big moves from the biden admini administration. what difference do you think it will make? >> well, i think these are big moves and necessary moves and sort of seeing what the authority of the federal government is in the middle of a pandemic like this. so you mentioned the numbers overall. this is the action plan. things like testing and masking and things like that sort of lower down on the list there i think would have a more immediate impact. when it comes to the vaccine mandates, i think you said about 100 million people potentially impacted by this. if you do the math right now about a quarter of the country has eligible adults have not been vaccinated. so let's just say you apply those same numbers there, it would be about 25 million people maybe that might be affected by these mandates. a lot of the people we're talking about may have

sanjay gupta. she helps families of the loved ones affected by drug addiction.93,000 drug overdoses in the u.s., most on opioids. here is sanjay with how she turned her personal struggle and turned it into a movement. >> oxycontin. perk 30s. it was always the opiates. and then they'd turn to the hurricane. >> unprecedented drug overdose. >> when he takes an overdose call, the usual suspect is a painkiller. many cities report a surge in hurricane use. >> when we talk about the opioid crisis we talk about dozens of people may have overdose inside a particular city or tens of thousands have died of drug overdoses. we talk about it from a policy perspective. but what makes this distinctive it is this is an organization that recognizes not only the trauma to the individual who is dealing with substance abuse, but the whole family. >> i lost my niece a couple years ago to an skboverdose. i lost a brother ten years ago. complications of his addictions. >> joanne peterson's family had a long and difficult history of with addiction. >> i learned when my niece passed away

sanjay gupta. sanjay, what do you think the united example shows?>> well, it shows these are tough times, but mandates do work. you kind of hope that, with all the tough pandemic news that we've had over the past couple years that more people would have been willing to just take the vaccine now that 6 billion shots have been given around the world roughly, we have a pretty good idea of how safe and effective beyond the clinical trials. we have lots of real world data. it's not new. this type of vaccine has a hesitancy. even among health care workers, this always surprises people. let me show you from the 2019-2020 flu shots among health care workers. what they found, overall 81% of people did get their flu shots. we're talking about health care workers. if you break it down in terms of places that mandated it versus not mandated it, where it was not mandated, 95% and close to 70% where it was not mandated. those numbers speak for themselves. >> let's focus in on health care. i think you point to it because a lot of people are surprised by it. it loo

sanjay gupta. doctor, great to have you here as the fda makes its decision.any reason to believe that the fda wouldn't approve it for emergency authorization? >> no. it's been authorized and now the cdc makes the formal recommendation, and i think what we're mostly going to hear is more specificity of who actually falls into these groups. we know over 65 is high risk for serious covid. we're going to listen carefully to how they define that. type 2 diabetes, for example, cardiovascular disease, people who have taken certain medications, whatever it may be. that could be a large group. you could be talking 100 million people in that group. then high-risk exposure, that sort of thing. i think we'll get some clarity but i don't think they'll reverse this or change their recommendation. >> i want to put that full screen back up, because the groups that fall into high risk there, it says, health care workers, teachers, grocery staff, those at homeless shelters and prisons, et cetera. the "et cetera" could be the largest category here when you consider who is high

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sanjay gupta.ouncement was addss expected, the united states will be donating to countries in need 500 million doses of the pfizer vaccine. is it clear what kind of impact that has on the global stage? the need is so great we know. >> yeah. the need is obviously tremendous. you start thinking about two doses of each of these vaccines, and you're trying to -- the goal was, as president biden has talked about, get at least 70% of the world vaccinated. you're talking some 10 billion doses roughly that would be needed around the world. let me show you sort of where the world is compared to where the united states is. we know here in this country, in the mid 50% range are fully vaccinated, whereas, when you start to look around the world, it's closer to 33% of the world being vaccinated. in the united states the problem is more demand. they have supply but not much demand. for most of the world, it's the reverse, a lot of demand but not enough supply. it will make a difference. you can get a sense of th

. >> and sanjay, dr. fauci in a new interview with axios, i took it as essentially reiterated a bar that he had set earlier in the pandemic. when it comes to the question of what is the end goal, what is the goal of how we take on the pandemic, is this zero infections? is it control of the pandemic? because fauci said in this interview that what it takes to get the virus under control is that the country needs to be below 10,000 infections aday. the country is currently seeing more than 150,000 infections a day. which is nowhere near it. i mean how far away are we from this goal? >> i mean, last time we were below 10,000 cases per day was march of 2020. just to give you an idea. at the very beginning of the pandemic. and that we got close in june of this year. but never have gotten below 10,000. so it is obviously very different than where we are now. we may see a rapid deceleration of cases, kate. because they've seen that in other countries with the delta variant because so many people become infected.

sanjay gupta and medical analyst and dr. leana wen.ell right now they're trying to grapple with the larger questions around this issue, does the safety and effectiveness data around booster warrant the approval for people across the board, 16 and older. that is what they're trying to figure out. is there a general boost ear approval that they're going to make. there is a lot of big questions that they're going to deal with. but what i think ultimately and i hate making predictions but if i had to, i would say that they're ultimately going to likely approve the idea of a booster, but make it clear that the cdc should recommend it for certain people. people for example over a certain age, when you look at the data carefully, you could make the argument that there is some benefit of these boosters for people over the age of 60 or 65 for example. but also remind people that as things stand now, the vaccines work really, really well for the majority of us. so that is likely where it is to come down. but i have to tell you, kate, lena and i

sanjay gupta. author of the forthcoming book world war c, lessons from the covid-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one. so, sanjay, as more students across the country go back to school, i mean, are you concerned the infection rates now can among kids are just gonna go up? >> i -- i think the absolute numbers are -- are going to go up. i mean, this is just a -- a -- a sort of a math issue, at this point. because as you're increasing the number of -- of children who are infected, even if the ratio stays the same, the absolute number will go up. right now, about 100,000 people in the hospital. about 2% of them are children. but as more and more are infected, even though -- even if the likelihood of your child getting sick, severely ill enough to go to the hospital, is low, the -- the statistics start to catch up with people. let me show you a graphic that sort of came out of this f free print from north carolina state university. what do the next three months look like? what they say is in

sanjay gupta.hat we're learning, and also why this is a big problem? >> yeah, well, this is a problem that's been really going on since the beginning of the pandemic, and frankly in terms of health inequities long before that as well. let me show you the numbers first of all, looking at the exact of this disease, cases, hospitals, and deaths, blacks and hispanics, 1.1 times more likely to be diagnosed. two times more likely to die for hispanics, the inequities are greater. what this new data shows is you look at that and try to match up the idea of vaccination rates, and again, you see inequities in the wrong direction. they looked at for example, in california and texas, they looked at hispanic population in california, and found despite these numbers, despite the case rates, 54% likelihood of cases in california, you had about 28% of the population being vaccinated. so you're not vaccinating the people who are having the highest burden of this disease. they saw this in texas as well. again, 15% o

sanjay gupta. sanjay, look, the fda has a ton on its plate.sion over boosters tomorrow will be fascinating to watch. and there have been a series of new studies that just came out in regards to this. it's hard for the layman to parse through it. explain what these studies show. >> yeah, i mean, you're going to see why this is a bit of a muddy issue here. unlike last year when the vaccine were being authorized, the data was pretty -- very, very clear then. but let me show you here. this is some data coming out of israel ministry of health. i think this bar graph makes the case. i hope you can see this well enough. basically this is broken down by month. people got vaccinated in january at the left, february, march, april. you see those graphs there. what you'd expect if the vaccine effective nets is waning is that january would be the lowest, right. it would have the lowest effectiveness. higher in february, then march, then april. when you look at this graph, march actually has the most vaccine effectiveness. april actually goes down. why woul

sanjay gupta. sanjay, a lot of folks traveled despite that cdc warning.y pretty much every school almost is back in school across the country. and we also just learned that kids now account for more than one in four of weekly covid cases. i mean, i don't think there is a way to put the genie back in the bottle at this point. but correct me if i'm wrong. >> no, i think you're right. i think that the idea that this virus is here to stay is becoming something that i think most scientists sort of believe at this point. it's a very contagious virus. there are remnants. 1918 flu virus that are still around more than a hundred years later. and covid is one of these viruses that we're going to have to learn to live with for some time. it's an uncomfortable conversation, erica. but i think the real question is not so much is this virus here to stay, it is. but what are we willing to tolerate in terms of its impact on us. when it comes to flu, tens of thousands of people still die of the flu every year. only half the country gets a flu shot every year. there are se

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sanjay gupta. sanjay, those numbers are just flat-out depressing.ection that they have right now may start to wane? is there a reason to get, i guess, all revved up over this fda decision if you're not in that age group or in that category where you might need that booster? >> well, i don't think so, jim. when you look at the data, the vaccines work really well. there is some waning of the ability to protect the most vulnerable against severe illness. but for most people under the age of 65 who are healthy, while they can still get covid, they could even have some symptoms, mild or even moderate symptoms, the likelihood of them developing anything significant enough to be qualified as severe illness is really, really low. and i think that that's what really drove the fda's decision, jim. it's because we focus on israel a lot, so let me show you what's happening in israel. we focus on them because they've been a little ahead of us in terms of vaccinations, 65% or so are fully vaccinated. they're the highest they've been since this pandemic. luckily,

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sanjay, what are you learning about the vaccine being approved for kids 5 to 11?dering how to do it for kids that age, and it's a lower dose. they have about 2300 participants in the trials. they got two of these doses separated by 21 days just like we heard for the pfizer vaccine for everyone else. what they did was they were looking for any safety signals, and they said basically the side effects of this vaccine very similar to older people who may have received this vaccine, and then they looked at how much antibodies were being produced. they found that neutralizing antibodies were very similar, again, to people who were older that received this vaccine. that's what's called a correlative measure. they're basically saying, hey, look, if you're producing that level of neutralizing antibodies, there's a good chance it will prevent people from getting sick, like they heard before. they still have to collect that data, but that's where things stand now. >> dr. wen, what's the next step in this? it's a smaller dose than adults are receiving. i guess parents are won

. >>> chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta joins us now.n a number of places now. what is the expected impact of this for new york teachers? are we beginning to see that these mandates move people, that they work? >> i think there's pretty good evidence on that. we've seen that among private sector organizations, but also among health care workers. people raurch surprised, there are a significant percentage of health care workers that don't get these vaccines. it's not just a particular group of people. let me show you something about the flu shot. i think this is always instructive. again, talking about health care workers, flu shot going back to the 2019-2020 flu season. overall vaccination rates about 81%. this is among health care workers. look at the breakdown to your question about mandates. in those places that had a requirement, closer to 94, 95%, versus 70% if there wasn't. it does make a difference. it can take time as mayor de blasio was saying, sometimes people will take a little longer to get their vaccinations as a result of t

we got a chance to speak with sanjay >> you have told me over and over again, this is not the old micron what is going on that is secular growth story and they don't understand it? >> jim, micron has driven with technology and product leadership over the course o last few years that reflects in our strong sales that we just reported which were 37% year of year on revenue and more than 107% in eps. with all the momentum that we have built, there's technology and products to address the secular growth demand drivers. we are also projecting our fiscal year '22 which has just started will be record year for the company with solid profitability. no question that micron is built upon and gaining momentum. we are expected about the future prospects and navigating through the pandemic thanks to our team you have got high performance computing. it may be a great opportunity here establishing highest performance six x. a new memory at a face called cxl. driving innovative solutions the secular demand drivers driven by ai, industrial iot, automation, all of these are really strong demand drivers an

sanjay gupta. sanjay, you have good news for many parents this morning.ing to want to hear this news. this is the first time we're seeing data now about these vaccines in people this young, ages 5 to 11. so it's early data. i'll preface by saying that. it is coming from the company itself. it has held up well the last couple of years when we have seen it this way. this is children ages 5 to 11. what they did in this particular trial, they had about 2,300 participants and they got two doses of the covid vaccine but in a much smaller dose. they landed on a much smaller dose. we get as adults 30 micro grams. this was 10 micro grams, separated by 21 days. what they did then was they measured the antibody response basically saying, are these children that age group developing the same antibody response that we saw in older people who received a higher dose. the answer was yes. and pore importantly the vaccine appeared to be safe. the profile was similar to what they saw with people who are older. again, this is the first data we're seeing from pfizer, really f

sanjay gupta. a key member of the vaccine advisory committee. sanjay, how far will these few measures, including vaccine mandates go in actually combatting this pandemic? >> well, wolf, i'm not sure because we don't know exactly of the 100 million or so people that may be affected by some of these plans that kaitlyn was outlining, how many of them have already been vaccinated or how many already have some form of immunity. but if you look at the country as a whole and say 25% of adults are not vaccinated, that would mean 25 million of them may be affected by this. that makes a difference. i think there is two issues, though. one is it won't make a difference right away because it takes a while for that immunity to kick in. and we're in a tough spot right now. three and a half times the number of cases this year compared to this point last year. twice as many deaths right now compared to this point last year. so it is a tough spot and these plans won't have that sort of impact. also it is interesting because i think oftentimes the idea of mandate

sanjay gupta. what will happen to the quality of care at new york hospitals if the state suddenly loses tens of thousands of health care professionals? >> well, it's going to obviously be affected. we've been talking a lot about potential shortages because of covid patients but really the problem is you survey around the country, including what you're surveying in new york is staff. it's a significant problem. what happens is that hospitals will oftentimes then go on diversion, meaning they're not taking anything that's not emergent or urgent. regularly scheduled operations, things that are not urgent operations, those get postponed. delays. so it has a really significant down stream effect. we're seeing that at hospitals in atlanta as well. that's part of the issue. the mandate in new york went out middle of august. they said by today health care workers needed to be mandated and that's why these numbers are now coming to light in terms of what the shortages may look like. >> new york city teacher

i want to get a word in with sanjay gupta. so, sanjay, as more students across the country go back to school, are you concerned the infection rates now among kids are just going to go up? >> i think the absolute numbers are going to go up. i mean, this is just a sort of math issue at this point because as you're increasing the number of children who are infected, even if the ratio stays the same, the absolute number will go up. right now about 100,000 people in the hospital, 2% of them are children. as more and more are infected, even if a likelihood of your child getting sick, severely ill enough to go to the hospital is low, the statistics start to catch up with people. let me show you a graphic that came out of this free print from north carolina state university looking at the next three months. what do the next three months look like? what they say is in schools if there are none of these mitigation measures, no masking, no testing, you'll have 75%. 75% of k-12 students become infected. there's close to 50 million student

sanjay gupta, so nice to see you. thank you for taking the time. >>> to florida now and the debate over covid protocols in schools just keeps heating up. that state revisiting a rule on quarantines now saying parents can send their kids who may have been exposed to covid-19 but don't have any symptoms back to school. one school district in north carolina tried this but then backtracked. cnn's nick valencia is in palm beach with reaction to the new move and the fights continuing over masks. >> reporter: anti-maskers were upset over the no opt-out, a mandate in place despite the governor's ban on masks in schools and some parents showed up here last night couldn't contain their outrage. >> today was my son's last day in public school with the school district of palm beach county and i couldn't be happier! >> upset parents confronted the palm beach county school board wednesday night over the district's mask mandate. a crowd of parents, some who sat for hours to be heard, blasted the school board for defying florida's re

sanjay gupta. book out due october 5th is lessons from the pandemic and how to prepare for the next one. let's talk about the trials. what you are learning about pfizer's vaccine, effects in kids age 5 hs 5-11. >> they went through the process of trying different dosing for children this age leanedand lan a lower dose. so this is, you know, quite a butt butt lower dose. they've been trulying this in 2300 participants in the trials. they got two doses separated by 21 days just luike we heard for the fupfizer vaccine. they were looking for any safety signals. they said basically the side effects of this vaccine, similar to older people who may have received this vaccine. and then they look to see how much in the way of anti-bodies were being produced. so what they found was that the neutralizing anti-bodies, the term that people heard by now are similar to people who are older that receive this vaccine. that is a measure that they're sfag you're producing that level of neutralizing antibodies, there'

sanjay gupta.w what those nurses are talking about, but how big of a problem is this? >> it's a big problem, jake, because these are people who are taking care of sick patients. that's one of the big concerns is that even if you are somebody who doesn't get sick, you can potentially spread this to somebody who is vulnerable in a hospital. the vaccines work. that's the thing. people think health care workers, they should know this, and they should. take a look at what they are dealing with in their own state in new york. new york is one of the few states that keeps specific records looking at hospitalizations among vaccinated and unvaccinated. jake, it's not even close. so that's what they are dealing with, in addition to potentially worsening the problem you see on the screen. they could potentially be vectors to sick patients which is why it's so important for health care workers to get the vaccine. >> one upstate new york long-term health facility had to put 100 out of its 474 employees on admini

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. >> cnn's chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta joins us with more. don't want to get too critical because the data is coming in over time and data being analyzed over time and readings of the data changing over time. but i wonder, do you believe the administration got ahead of itself here in terms of announcing a hard date, a hard decision on booster shots? >> well, i mean, considering there are still a lot of divergent thoughts on whether or not the boosters should be recommended, certainly recommended for everyone, i would say so because when we heard this announcement from the white house, it sounded like it was a done deal. here are the boosters. even setting a date for it, september 20th, which is monday. fda advisory committee meeting today, cdc advisory committee meeting not happening until next week. so i think clearly the white house got ahead of themselves a bit on this. it doesn't mean, what they say is we're trying to be prepared and make sure everything is in place for the roll out of boosters. but there is important questions that need

sanjay gupta. 65 and up are now waiting to hear from the fda and the cdc, this official go-ahead to booster -- to schedule their booster shot. why shouldn't older adults just go get that extra dose right now? >> i don't think it's a safety issue. i think ultimately this is going to get authorized for people 65 and older. i think the big question is, will it be even a larger group of people that ultimately get authorized? i don't think it's a problem. obviously insurance issues, whatever aside, it shouldn't be a problem for people to get shots. there's plenty of shots available. so the case really has been made for people over the age of 65. what i do want to hear from the cdc is to better define who are -- who is at high risk for severe covid. what are those conditions that are going to put you at high risk. we should hear that from the cdc. the fda has got to authorize it and the cdc will recommend it. let me show you. we've talked about this. the hospitalizations overall, you know, the data that'

sanjay gupta.se numbers in perspective for us. >> well, as you point out, it's the first time now in at least eight weeks that we started to see some declines. we don't know if it's a trend yet. everyone hopes that it is during that same time when he had about 4 million cases around the world in the united states alone, we had close to 950,000. so we're still representing about 25% of the new cases in the world. but, case numbers going down there as well. death rates also going down in the americas overall. 9% down. down in southeast asia. 20%. a little bit up in africa and flat in europe. so these are all the sorts of signs that the world health organization is sort of paying attention to, trying to get an idea of where we are. we got to follow these lines a bit longer, but it is encouraging. the first time we had encouraging news. there's also this renewed effort and interest in really committing to the world's vaccination. we're probably going to hear from president biden next week urging world