the media is excited that Pfizer is expected to ask for emergency youth authorization for COVID-19 vaccine

for children five out of their excited over at CNN. This is this is how fired up they are. They did a

big breaking news pause because they couldn't believe it was actually true. They can run out and go get

their kids vaccinated. Take a listen. Is there is expected to ask the FDA to authorize its COVID vaccine for

children under five as early as today? CNN has just confirmed this first reported by the Washington

Post. So if emergency use authorization is granted, children as young as six months old could have

access to a two shot regiment by the end of this month. Want to bring in senior chief medical

correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay, this is welcome news for a lot of parents, but it's also a

little bit quirky. Can you explain? Yeah, it is a little bit quirky because you remember last year

when we talked about this end of last year we thought maybe this was going to be sort of second quarter

of this year back you know a couple weeks ago Dr. Fauci said this sort of authorization request

may come within the next month. So it was the first time we sort of heard the maybe accelerated

timeline and now we hear that the the request at least for authorization is imminent. It could happen

really today any day soon now and if that happens possibly by the end of the month there could be an

authorized vaccine for children under the age of five which I know Brianna you've been thinking about

a lot lately a lot of parents out there have been. I think there's there's a couple things that I've

been going on here. One is that I want to show you the dosing first of all when you look at the

dosing for children under the age of five compare that with dosing for older people they wanted to

try lower doses understandably for these young kids and they wanted to get the right number of doses

as well. What they found was it in six months to 24 months two year old children they seem to have

good immune response based on this dosing. It was two to five year old children that they thought maybe

looked we have to add another dose a third dose and that was originally what was sort of pushing

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