News Wrap: Vaccine panel declines to recommend COVID shots this fall
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The day's other headlines begin in Atlanta, where HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s |
| 0:05.8 | overhauled panel of vaccine advisors declined to recommend COVID-19 shots for the fall. |
| 0:12.4 | Instead, the advisors recommended that individuals decide for themselves whether to get the vaccine. |
| 0:18.3 | And they urge the CDC to adopt stronger language around the supposed risks of vaccination. |
| 0:24.7 | The panel narrowly voted against recommending a prescription for the COVID vaccine. |
| 0:29.8 | Previously, the vaccine was routinely recommended and provided to almost anyone who wanted one. |
| 0:36.2 | Turning overseas, Estonia says three Russian fighter jets violated |
| 0:40.4 | its airspace today. It marks the third attempt by Moscow to test NATO's eastern flank this month |
| 0:46.9 | alone. The Russian MiG-31 jets breached Estonian airspace near a small island in the Gulf of Finland, |
| 0:55.5 | staying there for about 12 minutes. NATO jets from Italy scrambled to respond. Estonia's foreign minister called today's |
| 1:02.2 | incursion unprecedentedly brazen. This all comes just one week after NATO planes shot down |
| 1:09.1 | Russian drones over Poland. |
| 1:11.5 | The UN is set to reimpose tough sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program |
| 1:16.8 | after the Security Council today opted not to give Iran any relief. |
| 1:22.3 | The draft resolution has not been adopted, having failed to obtain the required number of votes. |
| 1:29.4 | The vote paved the way for so-called snapback sanctions to take effect at the end of the month. |
| 1:34.8 | That's a return to sanctions that were lifted under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. |
| 1:40.4 | Iran called today's action pressure and intimidation, but said it was still open to diplomacy. |
| 1:46.9 | Tehran still has eight days to try and reach a deal to delay those sanctions. |
| 1:51.7 | Just in time for the UN General Assembly next week, the Senate confirmed former national security |
| 1:57.4 | advisor Michael Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. |
| 2:01.9 | Waltz was quietly dismissed from his previous job in May for mistakenly adding a journalist |
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