FDA Fully Approves Pfizer Vaccine for Those 16 and Older

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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First, Chris discusses the FDA's full approval of Pfizer's covid-19 vaccine with Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn. Then, Chris goes one-on-one with Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. Chris wraps up the show with Rep. Jackie Speier. 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	All right, thanks, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to the Prime Time COVID
0:04.0	Command Center. We do have breaking developments in Afghanistan and one of the key players
0:08.4	in the Trump Taliban deal is here with a twist and we will test it. But first,
0:14.3	full approval at long last for the Pfizer vaccine from the FDA for those 16 and older. Now,
0:23.7	why only those people, why not under 16 will get all that. Here's the question, will this get
0:31.2	enough people to take the shot so we can stop making ourselves sick? Three in 10 unvaccinated
0:37.2	adults said in a recent survey, they would be more likely to get vaccinated if one of the options
0:42.4	moved to full approval. The president says, now's your time.
0:47.2	The moment you've been waiting for us here, it's time for you to go get your vaccination and get
0:54.4	it today. The FDA approval is the goal standard. And approval on his efforts on COVID is the
1:03.2	goal standard for his ratings and they're down and getting people vaccinated is a big thing for him
1:08.3	and for the country. Private companies, by the way, agree that approval was huge. Why? They want
1:14.4	to mandate vaccines and now they believe they have clearance to for their employees. Now,
1:19.6	this has been met with a lot of hype. You know, if your employer makes you get a vaccine,
1:24.4	that's discriminatory. Legal tests of this will come. It will be shocking if a private business
1:31.6	is not allowed to have their employees be vaccinated. And the idea that insisting that you be protected
1:39.2	is unfair to the unvaccinated unless you are immune compromised. Not getting vaccinated is what
1:46.7	is unfair to the people in your family, your job and anywhere you go. This is on you, not your
1:56.6	employer. The Pentagon also announced earlier that all US service members will now be required to
2:03.6	get immunized. Why? Because sick people are weak people. And if that happens in the military,
2:09.7	a mass contagion, I could have national security implications. So where are we? Take a look.
2:16.3	We're averaging nearly 150,000 new cases a day. This are up to almost a thousand a day. That's
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