Francis Collins described the Food and Drug Administration's emergency use authorization of Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid vaccine for kids aged 12 to 15 as "a big deal" in America's push to reopen. .

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday to review the shots for kids.

"It's just finding the right way of balancing the desire not to inspire another surge, which is the last thing we need right now, with the fact that people are really sick of wearing masks," said Collins