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Of the virus, where its circulating among kids. practically speak, jake, we get to the familiar you may have these increases or upticks in case rates again. you dont want at that time to be saying we need to figure out how to vaccinate the kids. they want to work on that process now so by the fall when the wither gets cooler around drier they can be in god shape. >> and we learned new information about the rare reports of heart conditions among kids. what do we know about that? >> yeah, were get...

Billion doses, we need 11 billion doses of the vaccine to be given out and again, such a great tragedy for any of these doses to be expiring on our watch here. >> sanjay, i know there are parents concerned when they see reports that there may be a connection between this rare, very rare cardiac illness and young adults, particularly young men who have taken the pfizer, moderna vaccines. what do we need to know about this? >> first of all, i can appreciate those concerns. im a parent. youre a par...

Steady, vaccine or no vaccine? >> beautiful. thats exactly correct. the background rate is what were seeing now. theres been no increase, particularly no increase above that background rate among children who already have been vaccinated. as i say, these analyses will continue, but so far, so good. >> you know, as we look at more and more young people getting the vaccine, the initial numbers in that first week since pfizer was authorized for kids was fantastic for those 12 and up. but moving for...

Myocarditis that means inflammation of the heart muscle. first of all, most people dont know that that happens occasionally in young people. it does. so, now we are vaccinating young people and, big surprise, after the vaccination, sometimes you get a case of myocarditis, the inflammation. cdc tells us, thats the background rate. its happening at the same right as in unpopulated population. theres no causal relationship. we dont want parents backing off vaccinating young people. were watching th...

Adolescence and young adults. mostly more often after a second shot than the first shot, right? put this into some context here. this is a condition that could be clear. this is a cacausiation. the cdc has been made aware of this potential, and with studying this in israel even a month earlier as you pointed out, this is considered to be very, very uncommon. the background rate of

Door nationwide. back to you. >> dr. gupta, i have a couple kids in that age range. how concerned are you about these cases of heart inflammation? >> stephanie, good morning. as tom pointed out, these have been generally speaking mild cases when they happened, less than 20. and stephanie, tens of millions of children have gotten at least one dose. we have to keep in mind mied owe card itis happens, 10 to 15 cases for every 100,000 individuals. this is invoktive of the johnson & johnson blood clo...