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Have. you hear that. you hear about this 11-month-old with covid who didnt have a place to go in houston. had to be air lifted to another hospital. what do parents need to understand at this moment, especially as schools are starting to reopen? >> what parents need to understand about this situation is a little bit of, yes, were still learning about this, but overall i still feel that two things are true at once. on one hand, the individual risk to a child remains quite low, very low. but the po...

Compared to an extended or long interval, ten weeks apart, which as you know many people in the uk have had and we found two main thing is, firstly antibody levels fell significantly during the ten week long interval after the first dose. but t cell responses were maintained. and on average, people who had the long interval dosing ended up with higher antibody responses after the second dose compared to those with the short interval, including variants of concern. its important to say that these...

Across five centres in england and compared how two different arms of immune response, antibodies and t cells, responded in people given the pfizer vaccine according to a short course, so average three weeks apart compared to an extended or long interval, ten weeks apart, which as you know many people in the uk have had and we found two main thing is, firstly antibody levels fell significantly during the ten week long interval after the first dose. but t cell responses were maintained. and on av...

Organizations chief scientist explained why it was important to monitor how vaccines perform against it. >> the delta variant is well on its way to becoming the dominant variant globally because of its significantly increased transmissibility. this is something that we are watching very carefully and documenting, and we now have a special expert group thats been set up to exactly track the performance of vaccines and their effectiveness when used at the population level in relation to the varian...

Persons groups ranks as an important risk factors and in the narco study we know investigate to what extent had group strength of thought or a risk factor for these persons in middle aged and younger person so where you could the participants in the a tranche of twenty to sixty nine years of the narcos study but why did you test the handgrip strength and not the strength of the experts what we are interested in is to the strengths of the muscle in general and not on a population level they had g...

Know enough yet to draw the same conclusion that bp is drawing and no other government official that we talked to, said bp is cherry picking its data. >> we are not cherry picking the data. if you look at the report we put out at the five-year mark, it shows things both positive and negative about the environment. so this is not cherry picking by any means. this is the most comprehensive view of the gulf. >> is the gulf nearing recovery? >> ah, you know, we are in the process of a long-term stud...

Consumed over that same period of time is the same. that goes against what people are thinking. the thing i want to point out is weve got to make a distinction between population based data like this and data, you know, in an individual person. because while on a population level were not eating more calories per se over the 20 years -- if you go further back we are over that 20-year period and weve redesigned our environment so that we dont move. on an individual level your weight is still the ...

Entirety of 2012. and ad spending for e-cigarettes is expected to grow even more in 2014 if the fda doesnt propose curbs to the devices and their advertising. stanton glantz is the director of the center for tobacco control research and education. norman siegel headed up the aclu for 15 years. doctor, if smokers view the ads and turn from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, wouldnt that be a good thing? >> well, that would be a good thing if thats what was actually happening. but thats not whats been ha...

What could happen? >> well, there are two kinds. two groups of consequences, if you will. one is the acute consequence that occurs immediately or shortly thereafter. the other which on a population level would be more concerning are the long-term effects. if chernobyl is a good lesson for us to learn from then it was the long-term effects on the population scale that mattered the most. the acute effects of radiation could be -- could result from either external exposure meaning you just get expo...