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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Child Covid Hospitalizations Surge Ahead Of Return To School

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

As kids return to class, there is mass confusion and anxiety from coast to coast about whether schools are going to open. Meanwhile, the number of children being hospitalized for coronavirus has almost tripled in some states since the beginning of December. Further, the FDA announced today they are recommending the Pfizer booster shot for teens ages 12 to 15. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

New Year, new you, same old COVID problems.

0:06.6

The lead starts right now.

0:08.5

As kids return to class, mass confusion and anxiety coast to coast about whether schools

0:13.4

are going to open, but at least there is some good news for kids today when it comes to

0:17.5

COVID.

0:19.1

So what was Donald Trump doing or more likely not doing as his supporters rampaged the

0:24.3

Capitol a year ago this week?

0:26.4

New insight this hour into what the January 6th committee is learning and looks and sounds

0:32.0

like a page from the Old Testament.

0:33.9

We're going to find out why fish were literally falling from the sky.

0:43.0

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper and we start today in the health lead, major new announcements

0:47.4

from the Food and Drug Administration today about Pfizer's COVID vaccine.

0:51.3

The FDA today recommending the Pfizer booster for teens ages 12 to 15, shortening for everyone,

0:58.7

the recommended time between your second Pfizer shot and the booster and okaying a third

1:04.4

dose for some immunocompromised children between five and 11.

1:09.8

More than 115 million Americans have been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine and

1:14.2

now the CDC is going to meet this week to decide whether to sign off on the FDA recommendations

1:19.7

as parents are stressing about sending their kids back to school given the recent spike in

1:25.0

pediatric hospitalizations due to COVID though we should note almost all of the serious COVID

1:30.6

cases among children right now are among the unvaccinated.

1:34.5

CNN's Alexandra Field starts us off this hour.

1:37.6

If you look at the upstrict it is actually almost the vertical increase.

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