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away but it's already on the floor on accident. >> you didn't have a phone, you wouldn't get the social moment. you should sometime. >> i don't want to disrespect the life saving mask but i acknowledge that if you are vaccinated you are protected, less likely to transmit it. we are in a closed room. we can take them off. >> that's right. i want to talk about vaccines. we are about to be quizzed as we launch our first set in only set of two truths and a lie. your one chance to get it right. >> facebook friends help me out. get ready to tell me the answer. >> according to last week you need help. >> i do. >> which is not true. the united states added the lowest number of new child cases in a week since june 6th, 2020 or the pfizer vaccine trial will use 15micrograms for five and 11 or vermont is 59% fully

vaccinated, mississippi 27%, nebraska right in between at 42%. >> well, as we ponder the three options, facebook friends, please tell me which you think is the lie. i am going to rule out c. i think those figures based on what we have been hearing of states and their vaccination rate that sounds about right which leaves me with a and b. as i'm buying time, stretching here waiting for facebook responses, people, come on. jump on it. erica says a is a lie. you know, she is usually very well read. she know what she is talking about. i will go with a. i don't think we had a peak around june 20th and i think you would have chosen a date we are had more of a surge. i will say a was the lie. >> a is true. >> erica. erica. i'm blaming aircast. >> you can't blame erica.

she had your back. i respect you. a offhand is good news. you know it kind of makes sense. you can see that overall the virus is a little lower. we may also not be testing as much as we were in the past as well. couple of things to remember. we are in a good place. b is the lie. i was tricky here. the doses are ten and 3. not 15 and 5. that ten is one third of the dose being used in the older teens and adults. it's a lower dose for kids to see if it brings the good immune response. c is interesting. vermont is number one in terms of fully vaccinated people. that almost 60%. mississippi is stand rit now. >> at'sng les kele closer. we need the whole country to get on board. let's talk more about the new news with the vaccination trial.

this is pfizer. kids five to 11. give us the set up, right how long it'll run, when we will get the results. and i know its like two thirds will be getting the vaccine, a third placebo. >> you basically just -- you nailed it. sorry. >> are essentially correct. we will have two thirds getting the vaccine. now someone may say, there is not as much coronavirus around right now. are we going to be able to tell who is protected who isn't another metric that scientists look at will be the immune response. will the vaccine generate the same amount that it did in adults in that's another thing to measure. they are using a smaller dose in history because some vaccines do have a different dose between adults and young kids. i think that it's an important thing for everybody listening, especially parents who may be concerned that this trial will be watched

enrolled. >> l enroll if you are interested for your kids. >> the last i heard is that you still can. >> okay. >> and kaiser has a site. >> oakland. what am i hearing about kids as young as six months old. is that a separate trial >> kids as young as six months old is also part of this trial. we are using -- i shouldn't say we. we are using different doses. we are expecting that in september. we will expect that five to 11. we should get data. we will see two to five and then we will see six months to two. >> by then your baby girl could be eligible. >> she could be. >> if the data proves that it's safe and effective. another thing that even i can right now say i don't know is i don't know what will happen in terms of where we will be as a country with respect to the virus. laura has antibodies. >> she will test for that. >> from the breast milk and

alsojust being prnt . ifhe ses sothe eabut doesn't that mean it's hard to get data because people are not getting it if you give some the vaccine some plscebo, is the vaccine working but nobody gets sick. >> that's exactly. >> you don't want people to get sick. >> you don't. >> how do you get the data >> by hopefully seeing the immune response. when i say that, looking at the blood. are they making antibodies >> it's still the same technology. based on what we saw. based on what we are seeing right now with the real world date a. we know the vaccine absolutely works. we can replicatx see the same type of response. we should be able to see the vaccine is effective and there may be real world date a. this is why it's

4500 kid as cross multiple countries. >> i was thinking the old days, prevaccine. when people were enrolling people in the one day sooner trials. to make sure they got it to make sure they can see. >> there is multiple outbreaks across the world. the trial may yield in of some. that is true too. >> i was confused about that. i want to talk about the fact that age 5. that's such a critical period in a child's life. physical, mental, all of that. is that a worry that in you give people vaccine, that most critical juncture, is that something that makes them watch super closely and could the vaccine have a negative impact >> i would say that it is a time you that watch very closely. it's not because of saying brain development or a vaccine. any type of trial involving young children will be watched very closely. the immune systems completely

different for adults. as the vaccine itself. de e. >> even with the 12-year- old's. we have seen some of them generate a little more of those cold and flu symptoms after getting a shot. the technology itself of the vaccine shouldn't cause any type of brain damage. if you look at the fact that it's the same mrna vaccine. we are showing the cells a blueprint. that is how it goes. >> okay mrna. what about if you talk about johnson and johnson for example which is not that technology and different. could the answer be different there >> the two answer is it's still the same concept. now instead of -- mrny. at using a vector to deliver the blueprint in. again, we still know that these two vaccines have been given out hundreds of millions of times. we know they safe in the real world profile. we know the mechanism of creating vaccines have been studied for decades as well.

i would not worry that this is a brand new, i have seen the terms around social media, or we don't want our kids to be guinea pigs. they aren't. >> even the word experimental is used in such interesting ways. planes, people fly them all the time. it doesn't mean it's not safe. it's just a category. >> if it was a plane that had been flown on about 200 million times, and was reviewed by the fda twice multiple public health official itself would not be experimental. >> has there ever been a vaccine -- just safety, that was fine for grown ups and when you brought it to a younger group, something horrible happened. i'm not talking because they got too big a dose. just something in the independent against works for older people and is fine but hurts kids in have we seen that >> part of being a doctor is learning how to say i don't know. i will -- i will openly sa

ththat have been stopped in trial because of side effects or because they -- they weren't working. there are some vacant seems off the top of my head, hepatitis a, that have a different dose for children and adults. that's also what they are trying to determine right now with this trial is, this is a different dose. is it enough, too little, too much >> don't you know have you to read the entire medical encyclopedia. >> and be able to say i don't know. science changes everything. got to be humble. >> if i lie someone will trip me so i won't do that. >> we will answer your questions for him while we take a short break on facebook live

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. we are back with abc news an authority and legend kristin z. >> that's not there but i appreciate you throwing in the legend part. >> that's the improv part. >> i like that. there's something for you there. i want to ask you this question from our viewers. why cruises are coming back when it's still a pan democrat speck half the people have not been vaccinated in what do you think about that the cruise line that i know are -- mainly doing cruises where 95% of the people are vaccinated. >> and the cruises will give in general will give some people some cold feet. especially seeing what happened in the past. not only with coronavirus but with noro virus, the measl es in 2015. >> do you feel comfortable if they say -- everybody has to be vaccinated. >> you are not going to get vaccinated to go on the cruise i want to know what they are doing to keep everybody safe. i want to know about testing. >> right.

>> let's say you don't get people vaccinated. what would you do to keep people safe if this were happening i want to see rapid testing getting in, before some proof you that are not contagious before you go on that ship. >> and as we continue to discuss the pfizer new trials for 5 to 12-year-old's elizabeth wants to know your thoughts about hearouu enlargemenn. i think there have been very few cases, no the to say it's not worth looking at. what do you think >> i think it's a a a concern. there's an article in -- and they dew pointed seven indicates. now remember, that these are serious cases. they need to be looked amount. even the cdc recommended let's look to see if there is a very rare mechanism behind e nereon caus het. upthgs to remember is that seven out of more than 750,000 that have been reported in this country ve th many cases very rare sid

effect. two important things. the baseline amount that -- is the same. we still see it. i see it in the hospital in kids who never got the vaccine and coronavirus can cause it. we have seen that. >> this could be like the johnson and johnson blood clots in some women where the cases are -- so few that they could be just what happens in nature even among people who didn't get the vaccine for whatever reason. this is your like on camera expert shining through. you know it's -- when you want to compare the background rate and look to see is there a cause behind this or is it so rare that just this coincidence i think that should give people some type of comfort. >> okay. i want to get at other questions including our full reopening happening june 15th. that's exactly a week away.

right >> yes a lot of people at that point we ditched the color coded tiers. we ditched the capacity limits indoors. we ditched social distancing and mask mandates. should this mean we throw caution to the wind like it's 2019 >> i don't think we will. even if we were to say like should we throw caution to the wind we absolutely should not. we still aren't 100% vaccinated. in our community, things look really good. people are careful. we have a great kind of respect for one another and where people are with their vaccination status. travel is about to open up. schools are about to come back. we are about to inter mix as a country. when you see the vaccine rates and the fact that variants only a flight away i think that we have to maintain some level of care. >> right and not to mention i think these are confusing times for us. we are getting two messages. we are getting hey, we are still keeping a state of emergency in california as you heard from the governor. not tip ditching that but we

are fully reopening. i think a lot of people don't understand. are we in a public health emergency or not >> i think we need to be very careful and be consistent with the messaging. we have been saying that since last february. and if we are -- still calling a public health emergency we should see things about why is this a public health emergency we should get in a clear understanding of what does it mean a variant may pop up. tell us about the delta variant. and also if the vaccine's prevent transmission maybe we should revisit some of the guide ians about vaccine people have to wear masks. we. >> you mentioned the delta variant. that's the one found first india. right doctor fauci said is he concern about it. you can give us what he said, what was the jist of and what's happening with it i know they are releasing a huge surge. >> they are.

here is the bird's eye view. the 1617.2, someone fact check me on that. it was suspected to be causing that rise in infections in india and that 12 to 20 age group. it then went to the uk and it's thought to be more transmissible. more contagious, possibly more dead lay. we are trying to basically look at and see what it's doing. here is a problem. 6% of cases in the united states are linked to the delta variant. if it gets higher it could catch hold. what he was saying we cannot let it be the dominant strain. if you look at communities where the vaccination levels are lower, maybe compliance with marks and other restrictions lower. that is a -- that is just a welcome ground saying come visit us which is not what we want. our vaccines still work against it. not as much as the other variants but some are putting it at # 8%. even more reason people. >> that's the ultimate message. when -- that president biden

said of 70% of americans by july 4th. it seems like we are slowing down sot health and human services department said that we are about 189,000 shots a day behind reach that goal. what do you think needs to happen for us to meet that goal what is the big downside >> the first thing is we -- i appreciate the focus group that are happening. we are talking to communities and finding out who is hesitating. i think its time we stop labeling people who hesitate as anti vax. some say i have a couple of questions. also i think that's low hanging fruit we talked about this have gotten vaccinated. who else wants to get a shot but doesn't have access or a ride maybe they are in a community where they aren't getting the right information i think those communities need to be addressed. we need to look at mississippi. if we are behind. we didn't make the goal. we are still seeing the benefit from having close to 70% of american was one shot and all the natural

immunity. >> here are a couple from viewers in the next 40 seconds. i heard some women are now missing their periods due to the vaccine. don't trust it. what do you know about that >> what i know is what i have heard is that it's possible that any stress on your body from a vaccine or not can actually cause some irregular things. most of the national organizations around women's health still recommend getting the vaccine or saying there is no concern about interior filth or permanent changes to the administration. >> why do adults get the same dose when -- you are 100 pounds verses like 300 >> it's more related to your immune system as opposed to your weight. some medications dosed by weight. i like the question. >> okay. good deal. thank you so much for answering the viewer's questions. always great to have you here and help us learn. don't go away because we have a very interesting segment coming up. >> the tables have turned.

employers are offering incentives for potential employees. it's hard to hire people. we will take

. as more jobs start returning some employ ears are offering even more incentives for job seekers. joining us now to talk about the concept and more is senior economist for glass door, daniel. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> yeah. this is exciting time. it's a changing time. it's at a confusing time. if you are i worker looking for a job is this a buyer's market or seller >> i would say that power is definitely on the side of the worker right now in the labor market. if were thinking about asking for a raise now is probably the best time to do it. >> i was just going to say, what perks could you ask for that you never got before you got -- a little ahead there. i am wondering why is that happening what is causing this kind of imbalance in terms of supply and demand for labor >> in the last few months

employers have reported shortages of labor even as they reopen and start hiring on more workers. there have a host of different reasons why it may be the case. i think the largest factor is still the ongoing pandemic. it's less than half of american who are fully vaccinated still a lot of worker who are not available because of child care needs or ongoing health concerns. people have mentioned unemployment benefits as a potential factor. i think that something that is underrated is something that economists call reallocation. it its a fancy way to say that there has been a huge change in the economy and society. it'll take time to unwind and figure out and settle down into the new normal. >> got it. so, which sector is the competition for workers most intext right now which are the businesses hanging out there, jobs available, apply now sign. >> leisure which includes

things like hotels, restaurants, bars, that's really where we have seen the largest demand for workers and the largest miss match in demand and supply. that is why you have seen stories about restaurants, offering like hiring bone fusses or even more unusual and creative perks. >> i was going to say perks. tell us about those. >> i think its interest its interesting because it really expands the gamut of different kinds of thing that employers offering. everything from free food which sounds nicely is fairly simple but to free i- phones or referred one employer after offering a car. we have heard a pretty wide host of incentives that will be offering. >> that is amazing. if that is happening right and you are ready to work when advice do you have for people in terms of what question can ask for. what should they look out for like really things they should

try to get >> i think of the first -- thing that i would tell job seekers is to do your research. the fact of the matter is that thely boar market right now is not the same as it was even just a few months ago or when you were last looking for a job. it's important to do your research if that means going to glass door and looking for salaries and reviews information about employerns there or even just reaching out into your network and community and asking people, hey, what job offers have you been getting. which employers are looking for workers. i think the most important thing right now in a fast changing labor market is doing the research. >> okay. one last question. like let's say you are applying for a job that normally they offer $15, $16 an hour. could you ask for more >> i think you could ask for more. i think that you probably should ask for more. i think right now workers have more power than they have had in a long time. i think that right now

companies are really struggling to find workers. i would add that it's not just a question of asking for more pay on an hourly basis. you could ask for different benefits, flexibility in your work hours, other benefits that may be available. we have seen companies start to say we are going to start to offer tuition assistance or education and thinking about what are the other ben pit that companies may be willing to budge on rather than just wages. >> daniel, senior economist with glass door. great advice. we will

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