The CDC Picking Vaccine Favorites

The lead starts right now.

Breaking just moments ago, a CDC panel unanimously voting to recommend Pfizer and Moderna

over the J&J vaccine, our Dr. Sanjay Gupta is here to explain why.

Plus, lifting the curtain on the behind the scenes efforts to overturn the election

new evidence revealed on how close Trump loyalists came to undermining your vote.

Then, bravery above all else, a moment years in the making three American heroes.

Finally, awarded the highest honor at the White House.

Welcome to the lead MJ Kapper.

We begin today in our health lead moments ago, CDC vaccine advisers unanimously voted to recommend that Americans

should get the Moderna vaccine or the Pfizer vaccine because they say those two are safer

than Johnson and Johnson's vaccine.

This hour President Biden has also said to meet with his COVID team, discuss the fast-bredding

Omicron variant as cases are surging across the United States and disruptions to every day life

are once again becoming a reality.

In the past week, at least four colleges and universities in the Northeastern United States

have either shut down, shifted classes from in-person to virtual or moved final exams online.

Multiple Broadway shows have canceled performances in the NFL, NBA,

and NHL, all have had to postpone games or sideline players.

This comes as Dr. Anthony Fauci issues two serious warnings.

One, the winter surge is here, and as CNN's Nick Wat reports, Fauci says it's only a matter of time

until Omicron becomes the dominant variant in the U.S.

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