the c.d.c. ikely to take a very cautious approach in children ages five to 11, in part because they're at his welsk for covid and in virus. i think there is a lot of information available, and it makes me confident about vaxxing my kids. for those parents who still have a lot of questions, i would urge them to have a discussion with their pediatrician. >> brennan: this is about a third of the size given to adults, correct? >> doctor: that's right. and for younger kids, ages six months to four years, which is still in development, it will be even a smaller dose, one-tenth of dose used in adults. >> brennan: so parents of young kids like me will still have to wait. is it going to be more difficult to get approval for the smaller -- the smallest of children, for the infants? are we looking really far down the line? >> doctor: not really far down the line. i think there is some indication, based on the experience with this vaccine, where the f.d.a. asked for additional information, as well as feedbac

the country. this week c.d.c. released a health alert highlighting the incredibly low rates of vaccination in pregnant people and those who may become pregnant. a group of people who are at high risk from severe complication from covid-19. overall, only 31% of pregnant people are fully vaccinated. and only 15% of black pregnant people are vaccinated. i want to re-enforce these vaccines are safe and effective, including during pregnancy. the benefits of vaccination far outweigh any risk to both mom and baby. if you have not yet been vaccinated, i urge you to talk with your health care provider and those in your community about the benefits of vaccination. vaccination is our best defense against covid-19. we have the scientific tools needed to put an end to this pandemic. we have the science to prove these vaccines are safe and remain effective, and i am confident that we can come together and protect ourselves and our communities from covid-19. thapg you. i'll turn it over to dr. fauci. dr. fauci: thank you very muc

the c.d.c. mendations today set the stage for the americans to get the moderna or johnson & johnson booster as early as friday. we also learned the c.d.c. will not change the definition of "fully vaccinated:" those who get two shots of pfizer or moderna, or one shot of johnson & johnson. tonight, the c.d.c. advisory panel recommended moderna recipients who are 65 or older or at high risk because of job, living situation, or underlying health conditions, should get a booster shot at least six months after their second dose. the panel also recommended that any j&j recipient 18 or over get another shot at least two months after their first one. do boosters get us closer to the finish line of beating covid, or simply managing it? >> at this point we're not sure whether this gets us to the finish line or whether we'll need additional doses in the future. >> reporter: as for which shot to get, the panel did not give a recommendation on whether anyone should stick to the brand of their original vaccine

the c.d.c. ge of 36,000,000 people died of the flu each year over the past decade, and there are fears this season could be a bad one. here's cbs' janet shamlian. .>> reporter: tonight the race is on to get shots into arms as health officials warn of a potentially devastating flu season colliding with the pandemic. should we have a tremendously bad flu season, how could that impact the covid situation? >> if we have eriousuenza ouak e going to overwhelm the healthcare system. >> reporter: that's why in little rock, at the university of arkansas for medical sciences, there's a new strategy. >> that was quick. >> reporter: a one-stop shop for flu shots and covid vaccines at this clinic. the c.d.c. says people can safely receive both at the same time. >> i appreciate you doing this. >> reporter: andrew benz got a covid booster in his right arm... >> here's your flu shot. >> reporter: ...and the flu shot in his left. >> covid is like a wildfire right now. and i want to do everything i can to mitigate

the c.d.c.ot taken a stand on whether people should mix and match doses, leaving it up to the individual instead. >> there may be some people who might prefer another vaccine over the one that they received, and the-- the current c.d.c. recommendations now make that possible. >> reporter: a small n.i.h. study awaiting peer review looked at which combinations of brands offered the best protection. coming in first, three doses of moderna offered the highest level; followed by two shots of pfizer, then moderna. anyone who received j&j's one-shot would be more protected if they got either the pfizer or moderna shot as a booster. but, an f.d.a. review of the n.i.h. study concluded, it's not possible at this time to determine preerred boosters. the c.d.c. also urged pregnant women to get a booster shot. currently, only 34% of pregnant women are fully vaccinated. the c.d.c. chief also said today, they may need to update the definition of "fully vaccinated" in the future, which means people may need a b

now, the c.d.c. to meet next thursday to discuss the boosters, but the earliest americans will get a hold of them will be on friday of next week. major. >> garrett: with all the steps in the process. mireya villarreal, we thank you very much. there is a big development tonight in the deadly 2018 shooting rampage at a high school in parkland, florida. the suspect, nikolas cruz, will plead guilty next week to all charges, including 17 counts of murder, hoping to avoid the death penalty. here is cbs' manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: wearing a mask and oversized glasses, 23-year-old nikolas cruz entered this broward county courtroom. >> please state your full name for the record. >> nikolas cruz. >> reporter: as the trial loomed for the mass killing at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, his lawyers told the court, cruz plans to switch his plea to guilty on 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. ( gunshots ) it was valentine's day, 2018, when then-19-year

and the c.d.c. greenlight the moderna boosters, those shots could be given out as early as the end of next week. the f.d.a. advisors are meeting tomorrow to discuss the proposed johnson & johnson booster. president biden today was ujing unvaccinated americans to get their shots, and there's good news -- the president says since the start of september, daily infections and hospitalizations are down dramatically. cbs's mireya villarreal reports from dallas tonight. this is big news. >> reporter: it really is. adviserrers to the f.d.a. said part of the reason why they decided to recommend the boosters was because to have the shortage of healthcare workers. they basically said we can't afford to have them get sick, infected and stay home when there is this dire need. we understand the f.d.a. advisory committee voted unanimously to green light the moderna booster. the recommendation applies to people 65 and older and high risk young adults because of underlying health conditions or where they work. those

i want to go on and quote-- this is a member of the c.d.c. advisory committee on vaccines and other infectious disease expert. her name is dr. sarah long. she also weighed in, in the "new york times," and said some administtion officials "pay lip service to science and the evidence." in other words her sense is that this was being driven by something other than data. >> we were absolutely following the data. i was absolutely following the data. in the recommendations to have people be eligible if they live and work in high-risk settings, i wanted to be very clear. these are people who are eligible to receive the vaccination. we want to make sure our healthcare workers have eligibility to receive a booster. and if we did not make those folks eligible through our recommendations, then they would have not have access to a booster. so this is really about access for our frontline workers, making sure we have equitable access, and that was really-- it was a science-driven, evidence-based vote. >> woodruff: final question. i mentioned in the lead-in

if you want one, the c.d.c. says bring your vaccination card and you can go to any vaccine location. margaret. >> brennan: mark strassmann, thank you. covid cases around the world have leveled off but remain high, averaging just under half a million new cases per day. elizabeth palmer has the latest from london. >> reporter: good morning. this month, we are watching a full-blown covid crisis in eastern europe. romania has one of the highest death rates on earth. in october, the virus has been killing an average of one person every five minutes. latvia has gone back into complete lockdown with a curfew that has police patrolling the streets to make sure anyone out at night is an essential worker with permission. russia, the giant of the region, is seeing a record number of deaths day after day. in the provincial city, burials have doubled and with winter looming, hospitals are struggling. even in the capital moscow, there is alarm. president putin announced a week of what he called "nonworking days." they start at

and today at the c.d.c. ficera: when you look at the unit ed kingdom, the health sectsor there is warning of 100,000 occasions a day potentially. could that happen here, too, do you think? is that a concerning development? >> it is and boosters are really only one small tool in what we need too do overall so the vaccinations rates are still significantly below where they field to be to offer some level of population level protection so we need to continue to ratchet up the things, including mandates to vaccination. so northwestern a role to play but we field to continues to have a focus on primary vaccination. laura: how about this question of fairness? is it right for us to be getting boosters when will the who says the pandemic is dragging on ball the failure of rich nations to share with poonations? >> the fundamental failure has been about the inekable response to almost every resource you could imagine and the central resource areaccinations that we know are saving lives. in the united states now, more t

the c.d.c. t relaxing their recommendations for halloween and thanksgiving. even for those who are fully vaccinated, the c.d.c. recommends: "the safest way to celebrate is virtually or with people who live with you." you want us to trick or treat with people who live with you? ( laughter ) that's just snacking! we've been doing that every day for 18 months. ( laughter ) ( applause ) mmm, what have you got? good stuff. the c.d.c. says that if you insist on having thanksgiving dinner inside bring in fresh air by opening windows and doors, and use a window fan to blow air out of the window. ( laughter ) pandemic or not, that's great advice for thanksgiving. (loud fan noise) (talking over fan) "what's that uncle jack? the mexicans should do what? i can't hear you, i'm purposely sitting next to the fan. what's that about critical race theory? i definitely want to hear it. while i carve the turkey with this jackhammer." (jackhammer noises) ( cheers and applause ) you know who loves turkey? dogs. ( laug

the corner t. c.d.c. vid recommendations so families can stay safe for all of the holidays left this year. today, abc7 news report what, j.r. stone talked to families and doctors about how they're preparing for the yup coming holidays. >> a pumpkin for you, no, no, a pumpkin for you. little ones celebrateing halloween early at the pumpkin patch after limited holiday celebrations last year. >> we'll stay at home >> last halloween got cancel. >> really? only some people were trick or treating. >> that is likely to change this year. children we talked with are more than a bit excited about that. >> whenever we never celebrate halloween this. time my school going to celebrate it. i want to go there and have a costume. i kind of want to be guitar player. >> oh, really? >> in halloween r. last year, we didn't go trick or treating because of covid. and this year we might go trick or treating. >> while some are still deciding whether they are going to trick or treat, some families know it's safe. >> it's thousands

the c.d.c. w added moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines to the approved booster list. >> we are ready to get booster shots in the arms of tens of millions of newly-eligible americans. boosters are available at over 80,000 locations across the country, including more than 40,000 local pharmacies, as well as thousands of doctors offices, community health centers, rural health clinics, and community- based vaccination sites. >> nawaz: we'll return to the booster expansion, after the news summary. president biden huddled today with democratic leaders, trying to wrap up a deal on his build back better agenda. party moderates and progressives are negotiating the package of social and climate initiatives, now worth $2 trillion. house speaker nancy pelosi said today that a deal is "very possible." a federal jury in new york has convicted lev parnas, a former associate of rudy giuliani, of making illegal campaign contributions. parnas used money from a russian tycoon to support republican groups, includ

friday the c.d.c. ys it performed an update to the page where the holiday guidance was listed but now says it was a technical update but doesn't reflect the c.d.c.'s guidance ahead of this upcoming holiday season. the page has since been removed entirely while the agency priors new guidance. meanwhile, as dr. fauci is declaring his ideas to margaret brennan. >> reporter: we can garter for christmas? >> it's too soon to tell. >> reporter: that comment resulted in more confusion regarding thing the holidays which dr. fauci addressed today. >> that was misinterpreted by saying we can't spend christmas with our families which is absolutely not the case. ly will be spending christmas with my family. >> reporter: for the 15 million americans vaccinated with the johnson & johnson shot, the company is seeking authorization for a booster according to the "new york times." a recent study found a single dose of the j&j vaccine was only 71% effective against hospitalization for covid 19. new york city's man date re

. >> o'donnell: the c.d.c. is warning that several children hve gotten sick from a product used to decorate birthday cakes. two cakes in the states were decorated with glittery dust containing lead and copper. the c.d.c. recommends checking the labels and make sure the glitter is marked edible. the company formerly known as facebook is now called meta, the new corporate name for the parent company overseeing facebook, instagram and messenger. the change comes amid allegations facebook knowingly caused social harm on its platform. up next, how football is helping a town rise from the ashes. # that lasts 24 hours. vitamin c more restful sleep. with the first-ever triple action sleep supplement. we put more of our brains into helping your heart. we give you more wellness solutions backed by rigorous science than we ever have before. nature's bounty gives you more, so you can live bountifully. look, this isn't my first rodeo and let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advant

grace lee leads the c.d.c. advisory board. a pediatrician at stanford. >> like many other children's hospitals, we have had children who have died of covid. i think that while the vast majority of children can tolerate the infection and do well, we also know that sometimes we're not able to predict well who will suffer severe consequences. >> reporter: kids make up 22% of the population, but 27% of newly reported covid cases. immunizing them could help prevent scenes like this: danville, pennsylvania schools forced to close this week, because quarantine rates were too high. antine rates we >> reporter: a heartbreaking new study in the journal "pediatrics" finds that covid caused more than 140,000 u.s. children to lose a parent or grandparent caregiver over the past 15 months. that's one in every 515 children. black and hispanic children were even more likely to lose a caretaker. >> 700,000 people dead in the united states. >> reporter: in chicago today, president biden argued new corporate vaccine mandates are making a differen

. >> o'donnell: the >> o'donnell: the c.d.c.rning that several children have gotten sick from a product used to decorate birthday cakes. cakes in two states were decorated with glittery dust containing lead and copper. the c.d.c. urges consumers to check labels and make sure the glitter is marked "edible." all right, tonight, the company formerly known as facebook is now called meta. that's the new corporate name for the parent company overseeing facebook, instagram, and messenger. the change comes amid all those allegations that facebook has knowingly caused social harm on its platform. all right, up next, how football is helping a town rise from the ashes. een a rough few months in colfax, california. a fierce wildfire was followed by this week's bomb cyclone. but cbs's jonathan vigliotti reports, some have found hope in an unlikely place. >> ready, go! >> reporter: high school line-backer peter dunham runs into the action, not away. but there was no game plan for what he faced this summer. >> i look up and there's a black plu

states and the district of columbia and the c.d.c. tching it closely. >> it halls several mutations on the spike protein that we have not yet seen implicated in increased transmissibility or in decreased ability of our vaccines or our therapeutics to work. >> reporter: if the c.d.c. grants emergency use authorization for pfizer's vaccine for kids 5 to 11, the earliest some children's hospitals like this one would starred administering the two-dos shot is by the end of next week, norah. >> o'donnell: meg oliver, thank you so much. and tonight, updated numbers from the f.b.i. showing a increase in hate crimes in the u.s., with more than 8,000 reported last year. that's actually up 13% from 2019. have a look at this. hate crimes against african-americans rose by nearly 46% in 2020 and attacks targeting asian-americans soared 73% as some wrongly blame them for the pandemic. tonight facebook reports it made $9 billion in profits from july through september. c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is answering critics who claim the company puts profits over

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and the c.d.c. should be ashamed itself for doing this. and go talk to the parents of those who have died and talk to the families and the moms that aren't here. i'm not here suggesting that i know in my infinite wisdom what is best for every american in terms of getting a shot. i don't know, i'm not a doctor. i'm a congressman and i stood up to secure the blessings of every american to make a decision as to whether or not they take my medicine. again, never in the history of the united states have we had a federal mandate from a president who doesn't know east from west, come down here and tell us we have to take a shot. the c.d.c. refuses to talk about natural immunity. why? why won't the c.d.c. not talk about natural immunity. they talk about a study that prompted the correct tore who said if you had covid-19 before, please get vaccinated. there are at least 89 studies that affirm natural immunity from a prior infection but they are uninterested and i have to go to studies in israel and in the united kingdom in order to get facts about n

the discussion over mixing and matching vaccines intensifies as the c.d.c. s eligibility for boosters. >> guilty. >> garrett: pleading guilty: the suspect charged witmassac7 f at a florida high school plans to plead guilty to all charges. will that move spare him the death penalty? chicago's police union tells officers to defy the city's covid vaccine mandate, potentially taking half the force off the street. bill clinton hospitalized: what we've learned about the 42nd president's condition as he recovers from an inf

shop the full vitamin c collection at olay.com >> o'donnell: the c.d.c.warning that several children have gotten sick from a product used to decorate birthday cakes. cakes in two states were decorated with glittery dust containing lead and copper. the c.d.c. urges consumers to check labels and make sure the glitter is marked "edible." all right, tonight, the company formerly known as facebook is now called meta. that's the new corporate name for the parent company overseeing facebook, instagram, and messenger. the change comes amid all those allegations that facebook has knowingly caused social harm on its platform. all right, up next, how football is helping a town rise from the ashes. >> o'donnell: it's been a rough few months in colfax, california. a fierce wildfire was followed by this week's bomb cyclone. but cbs' jonathan vigliotti reports, some have found hope in an unlikely place. >> ready, go! >> reporter: high school line-backer peter dunham runs into the action, not away. but there was no game plan for what he faced this summer. >> i look up an

these ir transplant candidate was bumped off the list for not getting the covid vaccine or b an independent committee or is it c, c.d.c. estimates, 400,000 hoppizations from the flu in 2019? which one of these is not true. >> oh, brother, these are good. i'm going to say c is not true. >> i love the shock and approach here. go with your instinct. c is actually true. i have to wipe the smile off my face and i go back to c and why that is so important. a actually is a kidney transplant candidate was bumped off the list. >> this is another one of your trick questions. >> it is technically not true. and bringing up an important. if you are in line to get an organ transplant and you will be asked not to smoke for six months. and b, we are waiting for this study. and this is from the n.i.h. to mix and match different vaccines and c is important. a lot of people are reluctant and people say people die from it. one thing we have seen in the pandemic, you can overburden the health care system. so a lot of people were hospitalized in 201 and do not want to see it happen this year. unlike last winter, people are taking off their

the c.d.c still has to give its approval. ile, the white house rolled out plans to vaccinate 28 million young children nationwide with low-dose shots of pfizer's vaccine. >> we have secured vaccine supply to vaccinate every child ages five through 11. and, as soon as the vaccine is authorized by the f.d.a., we will begin shipping millions of doses nationwide. these vaccine doses will be shipped with all the supplies needed to vaccinate kids, including smaller needles. >> woodruff: also today, new york city ordered 46,000 police, firefighters and other city employees to get vaccinated by november 1-- or get put on paid leave. we will return to vaccinating american children, after the news summary. russia's president vladimir putin has ordered most russian workers to take off from their jobs for at least a week, as covid cases and deaths keep rising. more than 1,000 russians died in the previous 24 hours, the most yet. only about a third of the country's adult population is fully vaccinated. back in this country, nikolas cruz pl

and the c.d.c. california has moved back up into the substantial tier for community spread after being in the lower moderate tier for just two days. san francisco, scant matteo, marin and alameda counties are in the moderate tier. dan: the demand for rapid covid tests is expected to surge and the c.e.o. of a covid testing company is warning that there could be testing supply chain issues in the coming months. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow has the story. reporter: as employees some not vaccinated return to work, the demand for covid testing continues to grow. many employers are requiring testing for anyone who provided a vaccine exemption and jason feldman, c.e.o. >> lowers with more than 100 employees will have to test their employees who are not vaccinated at least once a week. and that challenge is going to be one of the things that will drain the supply chain even further. reporter: feldman says this will be a covid test available. it just might knob the one you want in the moment. >> p.c.r.

if cleared by the c.d.c., the moderna and j&j boosters could be available as early as friday. will be given six months after the second dose, while johnson & johnson's would be two months after the first dose. norah. >> o'donnell: wow, unpaid leave versus $500. nikki battiste, thank you. and here's a sobering thought: some economists believe the supply chain bottleneck could keep prices high throughout next year. tonight, cbs' carter evans reports the backlog isn't just hurting consumers. it's driving some businesses to the brink. >> we should not have empty shelves. that's not a good sign. >> reporter: ed o'brien's denver company makes some of the most popular outdoor toys on the market, but it's on track for a sales decline of 40%. you don't have a demand problem. people want to buy your product. >> yeah, it's a supply problem. >> reporter: that's because he has no idea when his toys will arrive from china. >> we still have containers that we placed orders in march and have not seen and don't know where they're at. >> reporter: because of the huge port backlog, he's paying m

. >> brangham: when you-- in your book, the c.d.c. lot of criticism for its collecting of information, its dispersal of information, its initial botching of these tests. when you look back at our experience in this pandemic, is it the way we built the organization? >> it's the way we built the organization. i mean, the organization really wasn't equipped to respond to a public health crisis of this magnitude. they're accustomed to taking a lot of time, getting very bespoke data feeds, and doing very careful, rigorous scientific analysis and surfacing answers, you know, sometimes weeks, maybe months after an event. they're not the joint special operations command. they're not accustomed to surfacing real-time information and surfacing partial conclusions to inform current policy-making. there was a presumption that c.d.c. had the ball, and they didn't have the ball. no the c.d.c., i don't think, really raised their hand and said, "hey, guys, we don't have this, we need help-- this isn't what we typically do." >> brangham: so, was that a

federal approval could come within days and the c.d.c. ded moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines to be -- the approved booster list. >> we are ready to get shots in the arms of step tens of millions of americans. boosters are available at 80,000 locations across the country includinging more than 40,000 local pharmacies as well as thousands of doctor's office, community health centers, rural health clinics and community-based vaccination sites. >> president biden huddle with leaders trying to wrap up a deal on his build back better agenda. progress progressives are negotiating it. nancy pelosi said that "a deal is very possible." a federal juryingly new york has convicted leb parnis of making illegal contributions. he used money from a russian tycoon to support republican groups including one backing president trump. separately he aided julianna -- giuliani's effort. giuliani is still under investigation. and china insisted today there will be no compromise on the status of taiwan. and it also warned the u.s. to watch what it says. last n

unfortunately we now know from the latest data from the centers for disease control, the c.d.c., that under the cover of this pandemic, the drug epidemic has not only not gone away, it's actually gotten much worse. overdose deaths rose by nearly 30% between march, 2020, and march, 2021, the latest year for which we have data. 30% increase in overdose deaths. this is very discouraging and heart breaking, really, because that means much more devastation for our communities, families being broken apart, people not being able to achieve their god-given ability in life. thousands more being lost. 96,779 more individuals, moms and dads, sons and daughters, friends and loved ones, lost their lives to overdose deaths during that yearlong period, the most recent year that we have data for. it's the worst year we have had in the history of our country in terms of overdose deaths. again, we have been rightfully focused op covid-19, but particularly as the pandemic, the covid pandemic is beginning to get better, the delta variant finally beginning to affect our communities less, we have got to re

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a new study from the c.d.c. that unvaccinated people who recovered from covid are actually five times more likely to get infected again than those who are vaccinated with pfizer or moderna. that means that vaccine immunity is far superior than natural immunity. and it comes as there's breaking news about pfizer's mini-dose, a vaccine for kids as young as five. here's cbs' meg oliver. >> reporter: tonight, the f.d.a. authorized the pfizer vaccine for children ages five to 11, saying it was nearly 91% effective in preventing covid. a c.d.c. advisory committee is expected to decide tuesday whether to give the final green light, which would clear the way for more than 28 million children to begin receiving shots as soon as wednesday. >> our actions today, plus c.d.c.'s recommendations next week, help us get closer to hopefully closing another chapter in this pandemic. >> reporter: parents, like rachel baker, welcome the news. her 10-year-old son, jay, took part in the clinical trial at cincinnati children's hospital

i went to the c.d.c. to ask if they studied the 44 million americans that already had covid and recovered, would their recommendation be those individuals don't have to have the vaccine if they can show they already have the antibodies in their system and the answer i got back from the c.d.c. is we have not studied it yet. a year and a half in we have not studied it yet. ience with to the office of management and budget to be able to visit with them. i heard one set of issues from them. 24 hours later i met with the office of personnel management. i heard a different set of issues that came from them, literally in conflict with each other 24 hours apart. they put out guidance. they put out a second set of guidance. but each set of guidance they put out becomes more chaotic in the process. people that work repoetly throughout this entire time of covid and continue to work remotely are a little confused why they're being mandated to have a vaccine. individuals that have already had covid and have recovered a

the discussion over mixing and matching vaccines intensifies as the c.d.c. guilty. >> garrett: pleading guilty: the suspect charged with massacring 17 students and staff at a florida high school in 2018 plans to plead guilty to all charges. will that move spare him the death penalty? vaccine showdown: chicago's police union tells officers to defy the city's covid vaccine mandate, potentially taking half the force off the street. bill clinton hospitalized: what we've learned about the 42nd president's condition as he

while many americans are lining up for their third covid shot, the c.d.c.pdated its compromised immune systems, compromised immune systems, saying they can now get a fourth dose of pfizer or moderna. all right, tonight, there's new evidence that americans have been smoking and drinking more during the pandemic. researchers in michigan say the number of people seeking liver transplants for alcoholic hepatitis shot up by more than 50% as sales of alcohol surged. and for the first time in 20 years, cigarette sales increased last year as smokers stocked up, buying nearly a billion more cigarettes than in 2019. all right, coming up next, it took a village to make sure a little girl wouldn't miss halloween. halloween. i'm not getting through the pandemic just to end up with the flu. i asked for fluzone high-dose quadrivalent. it's the #1-used flu vaccine for people 65 and older. fluzone high-dose quadrivalent is the only vaccine approved by the fda for superior flu protection in adults 65+. i'm not letting my guard down. fluzone high-dose quadrivalent isn't for p

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the c.d.c. has to take that up. uess is they're not going to take that up until you have fully approved vaccines for children and more than one vaccine in the market available to kids. that might be more of a fall 2021/2022 event. bu you'll see other states and districts moving forward with their own mandates. i think the right focus is at the local level. you'll see other states, like california, taking this up. >> brennan: right, which they did. but what you're talking about is a practical matter of timing. he said it is aboutperson freedd for elves. ia eme th continue hrticularly from republicans. senator ted cruz this week says he stands with nba players refusing to be vaccinated, for example. the republican governor of texas and florida, they're saying it also, it is a matter of free choice. you've been concerned about politicization of vaccines. aren't we already there? >> doctor: we are there. look, these are not just individual choices. these are collective decisions. and we've always looked at vaccination as

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the f.d.a. authorize and c.d.c. recommend the vaccine for children ages 5-11. states have now placed their initial orders of vaccine for kids, and upon f.d.a. authorization of the vaccine, millions of doses will be shipped immediately to tens of thousands of pediatricians, family doctors, children's hospitals, community health centers, rural health clinics and pharmacies, providers, parents and kids know and trust. the bottom line is that we will be ready immediately following f.d.a. and c.d.c.'s decisions so that parents can get their kids vaccinated quickly, easily, and conveniently. next, i want to highlight important progress we're making in ramping up both the availability of testing, particularly at-home testing, and access to free testing. we are on track to have more than 200 million rapid at-home tests available to americans each month starting in december. that's more than four times the level of supply in late summer. and we're also on track to increase the number of places americans can access free testing to 30,000 community-based locations. and th

. >> doctor: margaret, i believe the way the c.d.c. has recommended. you're in a situation where you have a dynamics of virus in the community, where there is clearly a lot of spread, even if you are vaccinated and you are in■ an indoor setting, a congcongregate setting, it makes sense to wear a mask and to avoid high-risk settings. and we should be looking at ventilation in indoor places. it is clearly spread by aerosol. and you want more ventilation, which is the reason why outdoors is always much safer than indoors. if you are indoors, ventilation will be key. that's the reason we should be paying attention to that. >> brennan: but we can gather for christmas, or it is just too soon to tell? >> doctor: you know, margaret, it is just too soon to tell. we have to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we're going to do at aserinuio get the cases down. and we can do it by people getting vaccinated, and also in the situation where boosters are appropriate to get people boosted becaus