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united states. we ll look at whether there is any relief in sight. and children as young as six months old just days away from getting covid shots. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we re tracking developments in ukraine where the area around the capital kyiv was rattled by a series of explosions a short time ago. air defenses worked on enemy targets, but so far no fires or casualties reported. officials are urging people to stay in shelters. meanwhile two european leaders say the war may drag on for years. boris johnson and jens stoltenberg made the statements separately and both said that the west should be in for the long haul. and president zelenskyy is pledging to regain all the territories captured by russia in ukraine s south. he spoke after visiting two cities in the region and seeing residential areas ham areaed by artillery and missiles. translator: the losses are significant. many houses were destroyed, civilian logistic ....
Vaccine. moderna is given as 25 micrograms each dose, which is half of the 50 micro grams given to older kids. and pfizer is given as three micro gramgrams per dose for chn under five and that is 1345u8er t smaller than the 10 given to older kids. and for both vaccines, common side effects include pain at the injection site, fever, headache, chills, fatigue, and both companies, moderna and pfizer, have said that these child-sized doses of their vaccines appear to illicit up mine immune respo kids that are similar to what we ve seen in adults so far. americans are celebrating the country s newest national holiday. coming up we ll take a look at the festivities and history of juneteenth. and after the covid pandemic ....
Means. it would be a little different than adults. the initial series that they would get is three. so not two plus a booster but three to begin with. so two shots about, three weeks apart. and then another one about two months later. the dosage would be way smaller than for an adult. three micro grams instead of 30. we had all hoped this would have happened already. they said we tried a certain reg member and it didn t work as well as we wanted that so they re trying this and we ll see what their data is when they release it. elizabeth cohen reporting for us. thank you. just ahead, ukrainians who say they narrowly escaped death at the hands of russian forces, describe the brutality they endured. i got bongos thumping in my chest and something tells me they d don t beat me he d better not take the ring from me. ....
Don t understand the process for what the trials do. the vaccine was not found to be ineffective in two to four-year-old group. what happened was the pfizer sets a threshold for antibody response and what happened was it did not meet that threshold. it doesn t mean it s not effective. it just means it didn t hit the market they wanted it to compared to the six month and two-year-olds where it did. it is not that the vaccine doesn t work. it is not that the vaccine doesn t protect that age group. but considering how many hundreds of thousands of kids have been recently infected, how many hundreds of thousands have been hospitalized, i will take good protection any day until we can see that third dose will give them even higher protection. but for physicians, especially to say that the vaccine did not work at the two doses at the three micro grams is really ....
The holiday season and the winter months. how quickly does protection begin to wane though, doctor, following a moderna booster dose? so, wolf, i think we re still looking at those data. probably from about three months on against omicron, after the second dose of the primary vaccination you ll begin to get some waning. now people are getting boosted and i think we ll have to wait a couple months until we can see how the data develop and mature to understand when will their additional booster dose if needed have to be given? we know that people do fare better. correct me if i m wrong. against omicron if they ve gotten a booster dose. we all know that. we ve heard it multiple times. your company now says a full 100 micro gram booster dose of the moderna shot offers more protection than the current booster size dose of 50 micro grams. ....