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Down to 37% effective in kids 2 through 5. now, moderna says these efficacy numbers are basically the same as adults, if theyre fighting up against omicron, but if children were less likely to get sick in the first place what do you tell a parent who might be skeptical about getting their kid vaccinated saying whats the point, 37%? >> i think its important to really look at what that vaccine efficacy means. kids are just as likely to get this as adults are. kids are less likely to get very sick ...

Floating around. and its still very much there. and the most blunt tools we have to contain it. like non-pharmaceutical interventions. like lockdowns shutting things down. that all leads us to this kind of strange period where we are now. the modeling through phase. modeling through the omicron phase. we know is going to be disruptive. that transmits it is so high. you heard doctor fauci acknowledge that. and what i thought was striking language. saying it factored in the cdcs decision to shorte...

Done, the governor in colorado has started to dismantle the rules. new york, connecticut, theyre looking at similar rules, dismantle ing the rules coming . this means that governors believe that the end of the pandemic, at least the pandemic phase of the pandemic is here. and now, we are moving on to some other phase. pandemic or whatever you want to call it. the hope is this wont ban mask mandates as some have done, but it will allow parents to make their own decisions if kids can wear masks in...

Frontline staff are caring for patients who need intensive care after falling critically ill with Covid-19, according the latest HSE report. Disease monitoring ...

It is peak apple harvest time across the country - and Omicron is not showing any signs of slowing down in the two busiest apple harvest regions - Hawke's Bay and Nelson-Tasman.

0 democracy. and the truth about the great shoplifting freak out of 2020. one state now proposing a bounty for parents who find banned books in school. when all in, starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. thats we are about to enter a new year. the third calendar year of the pandemic. take a look at this map. put out by the centers of disease control and prevention. it shows the level of community transmission of covid in america right now. laughing at sort of a joke. its a...

Experienced in the prior three days. the dow up 3% during this period. the s&p 500, same drill, up 3.5% in the latest sessions and down three in the prior three sessions. the nasdaq rounding it out without 4.5% after falling close to 4% in the prior three days. seems like the market is now more than making up for earlier worries which might have included inflation less so now. what describes what the market is doing? >> the numbers that you gave, were rich. its almost like those days, neil, neve...

>> dr. hogue our president talked about that as well earlier this year. were looking to begin those trials in early 2022. it will take a couple months to do the trials to get some blood to see if we make antibodies. we are confident we will but need to confirm. i think it is a second quarter scale up. >> as you know both israel and germany are now taking steps to offer fourth doses of coronavirus vaccines to certain segments of the population, people 60 and older, health care workers, others wit...