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Hitting children under 5. quote, when asked about the extraordinary numbers of children being admitted to hospital, a south african government advisor said she suspected there might be a, quote, immunity gap, and that the lack of vaccination of children might account for the numbers. i am assuming in your line of work you find such a thing possible, plausible, understandable? >> for sure. we are looking at africa, which, unfortunately, their rates of vaccination are on the order of 10% as opposed to our 60 or so percent in the states. clearly, that's a wide difference. we do worry about the ki...

It's a really challenging time for europe at the moment. the cold weather is here. people are indoors, the delta variant is spreading rapidly. and on top of that, vaccine coverage is really patchy. it's less than 70% across the continent and much lower in some countries, some some specific regions. there is huge variation. on top of that there is also concern about diminishing immunity among those who have been vaccinated. that is why the european center for disease prevention and control is worried about what it calls this immunity gap, a huge number of people that are still vulnerable to inf...