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Severe heart disease, for example. and it does work. and it does make it milder. but, no, that vaccine is yet to come. >> why are we seeing such a spike in, you know, some new children kind of flooding into the emergency rooms with rsv. and here in atlanta, you know, i've been speaking with the children's health care of atlanta, they're saying that the shift this week has been now a majority of flu cases. last week, it was rsv. but i know there's a lot of talk about the immunity gap, covid forcing a lot of people to wear masks. a lot of people still exposed to a lot of these virus, sometimes, ...

Year's, you know, peak week. some scientists are believing there may be a so-called immunity gap because of health measures during the covid pandemic. what do you see as a real impetus for this? >> i heard a lot of talk about the immunity debt. personally, i think that is more of a societal term than a truly scientific one because it almost gives a false premonition that once this so-called debt is paid, that we'll somehow be released from the shackles of respiratory viruses, and that's not the case. what we're really seeing is a massive increase in the susceptible population. children who typ...

Saying the early surge in rsv infections in children is probably because of the immunity gap that came from more than two years of isolating during the pandemic. doctors and pediatric hospitals are saying they're starting to reach capacity. we're joined by three physicians experiencing this early rise at their respective hospitals. the pediatric infectious disease expert at boston's children hospital, the doctor from the children's hospital in illinois, and the director of pediatric medicine at johns hopkins. i want to go to dr. berner first. tell us about the surge and what you're facing in y...

Fantastic, they don't provide durable immunity so basically he said we owe it to the american people, he used the word we owe it, to the american people to try to look at other types of vaccines, not just pfizer and moderna. ana. >> kind of disappointing news, elizabeth cohen, thank you for your reporting. i want to bring in dr. tara narula now. it comes in the uptick in rsv cases among our children, 75% of pediatric hospital beds are full, 99% of pediatric beds full in rhode island, for example, it turns out what we were doing to protect ourselves from covid has now made us sitting ducks? >...

Style rifle and more than 600 rounds of ammunition when he opened fire inside of the school yesterday. he shot and killed a teacher and tenth grade student before police killed him. he left a letter in his car calling himself an isolated loner who had no friends. police say harris' mother is cooperating and that she had been seeking mental health support for her son before the attack. scientists now say the moves that helped keep us safe during the covid pandemic may be the reason behind the unprecedented surge in rsv and flu in children. more on the immunity gap ahead. and a month after h...