gregory poland, the vaccine research director at the mayo clinic. to start with this donation of 60 million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine from the united states. those are being made available. we have also heard making 50,000 vials of remdesivir available as well. how crucial is it to get vaccines and treatments into developing countries right now? dr. poland: no question about the importance of this. we are seeing a simplified equation, the rates of devastating rates between virus and vaccine. so, the quicker we get them, these lifesaving measures, the better. the other point that should not be lost on any listener is when any country is not safe and control, none of us are. paul: are you concerned in that regard about the effects and the united states, there is a reasonable chunk of people who have received one shot but haven't bothered going back for their second? which does that create? dr. poland: no question, that does add some level of risk. there were people who got their first dose who had not yet returned for the second dose, even thoug

vaccine. researchers looked at nearly 30 pregnant women who got the pfizer and ma door that vaccine, and looked at the core blood of their baby's after birth. they found women who got the vaccine earlier in the third trimester were more likely to pass on those protective antibodies. >>> this weekend,. there anthony faucci is answering covid related questions from kids. it's part of an effort by nickelodeon. >> when will i be able to play again? >> i didn't have a birthday party last year. will i miss it again this year? >> natalie, it depends on when your birthday is. >> kids submitted questions, and dr. faucci's answers will be featured in a series of nick's news breaks. it covers major news topics for young people. kids can hear from dr. faucci this weekend on nick, teen nick, nick teens, and all of nickelodeon's social media sites. >>> time for a check of our weather again, with meteorologist mary lee, headed into the holiday weekend >> we are looking good. cooler, though. you'll notice that difference. we're already starting to see that cool town today, and that will continue into our holid

i'm chris cuomo welcome to the program there is some good news when it comes to corona virus vaccines the research suggests the biotech pfizer vaccines is a 100 percent effective in preventing covert 19 and 12 to 15 year olds it's a boost for biotech which is just bringing a massive new production facility on straight. in an unremarkable building northwest of the german city of my blog a bio intake employee is working on a better of m.r. in a based vaccines against covent 19 it's a laborious process is it takes about 50000 steps to produce one you get about 7 to 8000000 doses out of a batch of purified r.n.a. active ingredient. the mother of facilities one of the world's largest m r n a vaccine manufacturing plants and aims to produce $250000000.00 doses in the 1st half of the year the ultimate aim is to turn out 1000000000 doses annually that's around 40 percent of by on take feiss total output the vaccine is also being produced at a plant in belgium and at 3 sites in the united states the 1st batch is from marburg will be delivered in the 2nd half of april the recipients should find some cheer a

vaccine. researchers at northwestern medicine looked at 27 pregnant women, who received the pfizer or moderna vaccine in the third trimester. and looked at the cord blood of their babies after birth. they found woman who got the vaccine earlier in the third trimester are more likely to pass on those protective antibodies. >>> he is asked a lot of questions of course, this weekend dr. anthony fauci is fielding some of them about covid. it is all part of an effort by viacom cbs's nickelodeon. >> 11 i be able to play dates again? >> you know, i would hope that by the time we get to the late spring and early summer, you could start having play dates, so hang on a little bit longer. >> i like that timeframe. kids across the country submitted questions and his answers will be featured in a series of nick news breaks, that is an ongoing nickelodeon segment that covers major news topics for young people. and families can watch them this weekend on nick, teennick, nick tunes, and on nickelodeon's social media sites. >>> > this weekek, studentsts a rising above scholar is looking ahead to a bright futur

this compares with over 740000000 euros in funding for vaccine research. we need tens of thousands of volunteers for testing that's what costs a lot of money and where you simply need larger sums. by money. when you vaccinate healthy people you need a lot more healthy people then when you're testing a drug that is targeted at the sick. bike. recently however the federal government appears to have rethought the issue and further funds have already been announced. we lost many many months because the financial resources were simply not available for the drug developers we can no longer afford to keep wasting time. therapeutics says it needs 50000000 euros to reach the emergency approval stage german government funds won't be enough for this so the biotech start up has been speaking to international investors. now antiviral treatments attack the virus and stop it multiplying but the virus doesn't find fair using our own cells to reproduce and finding a treatment is difficult at the best of times let alone during a pandemic. so far the only antiviral drug appr

more promising signs for the pfizer violence had vaccine research shows it's highly protective against the south african variant of corona virus several pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been convicted for their role in the $21000.00 mass protests. that call the lives i think were in the. video of george ford's arrest proves the stressing for witnesses at the trial of the former u.s. police officer accused of his murder. and support germany lose their 1st world cup qualifier in 2 jackie a 4 time world champion cyclist on she wanted host i knew a chance to just. say. hello myanmar's deposed civilian leader and sponsored she is facing a new charge of violating a colonial era official secrets act it carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison meanwhile on the grounds of the un special envoy for me and mars warning of a civil war that's unless the security council acts to restore democracy despite the increasing bloodshed a diverse group of protesters is keeping the pressure on military generals to give up power as they mark 2 months since the coup and the military is under press

this compares with over 740000000 euros in funding for vaccine research. we need tens of thousands of volunteers for testing that's what costs a lot of money and where you simply need larger sums. by money. when you vaccinate healthy people you need a lot more healthy people then when you are testing a drug that is targeted at the sick. and bike. recently however the federal government appears to have rethought the issue and further funds have already been announced. we lost many many months because the financial resources were simply not available for the drug developers we can no longer afford to keep wasting time. kora therapeutics says it needs 50000000 euros to reach the emergency approval stage german government funds won't be enough for this so the biotech start up has been speaking to international investors. now antiviral treatments attack the virus and stop it multiplying but the virus doesn't fight fair using our own cells to reproduce and finding a treatment is difficult of the best of times let alone during a pandemic. so far the only antivira

vaccine. researchers followed the 46,000 clinical trial participants and determined after 6 months the volunteersected against covid-19, and even better protected against a severe case of covid. the study also showed no serious safety concerns and side effects. stay generally consistent with previously reported results and even if pfizer's efficacy rate remains high for years to come. that doesn't mean we won't need booster shots in the future. the question is not so much the in what we've been vaccinated for. >> but what about the other variance and how well does it cover the other variance. so think of additional shots is not being boosters to increase your immunity. but you're getting additional strains covered. so is broadening your immunity with pfizer's high rate of protection. the availability of other vaccines on the market and potential booster shots in the future. could there be a time where covid is a thing of the past. the what's good likely to happen is that this is going become an endemic disease, meaning we're going to see a few cases. >> time to time to remain on our differential

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he's after all a respected pediatrician, a vaccine researcher, and an advocate. >> i get hate mail i. i've been physically threatened and physically harassed. i've had three legitimate death threats, the kind that get investigated by the fbi. >> over the years critics have called him everything from a terrorist to a mouthpiece for big pharma. pushing advantage seeps because he receives profits from the one he developed. one post said he should be prosecuted for crimes against our children. another -- i will handing you by your neck until you are dead. he tells everyone he's not motivated by money but driven by memories. >> i mean, my parents were children of the 20s and 30s. they saw diphtheria as a killer of teenagers. they saw polio as a crippler. i had all that. i know what they felt like. >> it's that connection to the story that dr. paul shares in common with dr. peter. >> looking at the screen -- >> a world renown virologist, researcher and vaccine advocate, he also has threats to his safety and his life. >> dr. peter hotez, another vaccine expert needs a security escort. >> th

no not at all painful to find out that scene is one of the few vaccine research council just for my beautiful cure and we expect some dozens of pfizer that seem to become available if you don't of course are made and although we don't offer a prostate or find the vaccine based on his immune responses we would expect it to work pretty well again so if he sees you when you do he wants to fight anyone that is dominating in south africa in fact this much yes they. use all the chinese drinks in 5 or even if you're going to see images that internation don't think since it works against you on 351 so i figured out the use of johnson and johnson and pfizer that seeing exactly what's i think could be quiet in the absence of any other options in a media future so afrikan aims to vaccinate 750000000 people over the next 2 years but so far. just about 14000000 vaccine doses not been administered can we reach top mach. unfortunately with the huge issue is an ongoing vaccine supply and killing you from this you know he has to do that and yet we as you know the new government and for the next alter that see

this compares with over 740000000 euros in funding for vaccine research. we need tens of thousands of volunteers for testing that's what costs a lot of money and where you simply need larger sums. when you vaccinate healthy people you need a lot more healthy people then when you are testing a drug that is targeted at the sick. recently however the federal government appears to have rethought the issue and further funds have already been announced. we lost many many months because the financial resources were simply not available for the drug developers we can no longer afford to keep wasting time and. cora therapeutics says it needs 50000000 euros to reach the emergency approval stage german government funds won't be enough for this so the biotech start up has been speaking to international investors. now antiviral treatments attack the virus and stop it multiplying but the virus doesn't fight fair using our own cells to reproduce and finding a treatment is difficult at the best of times let alone during a pandemic. so far the only antiviral drug approved

home page with the very latest information, so if you haven't gotten your shot yet, start your vaccine research at our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> all right. let's take a live look at the city of san francisco. there are more reopenings thanks to vaccinations. reopenings expanding. let's head over to sharon dads d.a. who is live in the city by the bay. sharon, as we head live into this weekend, sharon, many things are changing. >> reporter: that's right, chris, and you can see behind me a relatively quiet covid test site and that's fortunately a sign of the times. the low covid rates along with a growing number of vaccinations is helping to reopen the economy here. san francisco is in the orange tier and says these factors are allowing new reopening guidelines. they include live events can operate indoors with 100% capacity in areas where people have shown proof they are fully vaccinated. outdoor events can operate at 50 boston if participants show proof of full covid vaccination or a negative covid test. indoor dining can now stay open past 11:00 p.m. but maximum six people per table, an hote

the three vaccines being used here in the u.s. have female researchers at the forefront. in our series "women and the pandemic," we'll introduce you to those on the front lines of ending the covid crisis. nita patel is trying to help end the pandemic. >> we are the pandemic. >> we are making antibodies. >> o'donnell: she's one of the lead vaccine scientists at novavax, a maryland biotech company currently in the finalal tr trials of its covid vaccine. the team isn't just led by a woman-- it's almost all women.sa do you see a difference in the way a team of female scientists work together? >> they communicate. they get along very well. i never see them stress out. >> reporter: patel isn't alone. women are leading the effort at pfizer, johnson & johnson, and oxford-astrazeneca. and at n.i.h., kizzmekia corbett helped design the moderna shot. >> actually, i was told i was one of the first people to open the vial of the vaccine. >> reporter: patel has a theory as to why women are at the forefront. >> we have a power inside us. we are very goal-oriented, very persistent in ach

welcome dr ali fountain to al-jazeera from an op and michigan he is the senior vice president of vaccine research and development at blue willow biologics and an adjunct professor at the university of michigan talked about him thank you for your time i want to clear up a few things 1st of all why has the astra zeneca vaccine not been cleared for use in the u.s. yet what what's the hold up there. i think the hold up is that related to the. timing got think that once the so seneca had finished and then we also started to eat about some of the same. events in europe that gave us a pause and that trying to understand exactly what's going on so that was the major sink secondly there is the issue of the protocol you know the clinical trial with us has in it that there are some few mishaps there and i think the f.d.a. had a quested or cuts of deployment vision and i suppose in a supposed to be submitting notice. that a quest for approval in the us so far i think it's in the process and maybe the day that out the information provided enough for the f.d.a. tuesday to go ahead for the approval. and that on

receive the pfizer job or more likely to have the south african variant than those who were not vaccinated researchers at tel aviv university did caution sample size is very small. and well. we've been following developments in characters stan the president is now far more powerful after voters approved his changes to the constitution nearly 80 percent of voters that cost nearly 80 percent of the votes cast back to the amendments to let him run for office again and cut seats in parliament critics say it's a route to authoritarian rule. voters cast their ballots in kyrgyzstan for the 3rd time in 6 months the referendum was called by the new president sort of to power of who asked the country to approve changes to the constitution the critics say they could pave the way for all thora terrorism and misrule. bullets up along with q i don't think only one man should decide everything there is a proverb that says you only find truth through debate the more opinions you have the better it is for the country's development. 3 from jail by supporters in october jury protests after parliamentary elections were g

it's also coming up more promising signs for the pfizer biotech vaccine research shows it's highly protective against the south african variant of corona virus. several pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been convicted for their will in the 2019 mass protests and the secret behind iraqi gold in a country with no minds calls from ours is a to ensure more is done to protect a centuries old industry. fellow mars the post civilian leader aung san suu kyi she is facing the most serious charge yet against her i'm bats of violating a colonial era official secrets act it carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison the military is now shutting down wireless broadband services after earlier cutting mobile internet completely over 2 months now protesters and activists have been sharing images of very defiance on the streets online as. they call for democracy scott had the reports. with tears of blood painted on their faces protesters in yangon mourn those killed for demonstrating against the coup this is they mark 2 months since the military power grab that plunged myanmar into crisis and. we a

. >> in coronavirus patients, then in those who get vaccinated, researchers at oxford university sayching covid can cause an 8 to 10 times greater risk of blood clots in the brain than those who get the pfizer or moderna shot scientists found that about 39 out of every 1 million coronavirus patients were likely to experience the dangerous clotting complications. but researchers say the potential side effect is still being studied. so the data should be cautiously interpret. it. and if you can smell your friends garlic breath. the than experts are saying that you're not social distancing. that is according to a virologist in the uk says if you're close enough to smell your friends lunch, then you're close enough to catch the coronavirus from them as well. if they are infected. some britons are now using this garlic breath distance. measurement to stay safe. i say 60. the cdc is reporting nearly 6,000 fully vaccinated. people. >> still became infected with covid. well, some became seriously ill and required hospitalization. 74 people did die. this is the cdc's first public account of w

vaccine. researchers followed the 46,000 clinical trial participants and determined after 6 months the volunteers were 91% protected against covid-19, and even better protected against a severe case of covid the study also showed no serious safety concerns and side effects. stay generally consistent with previously reported results and even if pfizer's efficacy rate remains high for years to come. that doesn't mean we won't need booster shots in the future. the question is not so much the and what we've been vaccinated for. >> but what about the other variance and how well does it cover the other variance. so think of additional shots is not being boosters to increase your immunity. but you're getting additional strains covered. so is broadening your immunity with pfizer's high rate of protection. the availability of other vaccines on the market and potential booster shots in the future. could there be a time where covid is a thing of the past. the what's good likely to happen is that this is going become an endemic disease, meaning we're going to see a few cases. >> and time to time to remain on

weather update next here on options here and then more promising signs for the fight as a biotech vaccine research shows that it's highly protective against the south african variant corona virus. i don't listen to him 3 of his birth sons and tina pays tribute to the controversial composer revolutionized tango and divided the musical world. how is that we're seeing some violent storms moving across the deep south of the u.s. this long line of cloud just moving out towards the eastern seaboard as that cold front associated with it cold northerly winds blasting out of canada ahead of that we've had some very warm air just being pulled out across the gulf of mexico that will move out of the way as we go on through friday those cold temperatures pick back to fall 6 celsius least disabled not too great it's all struggling to get above freezing and also well at least it will be dry to be crisp shall we say central areas of the u.s. central parts of canada fine and dry for the west we have got a little bit of sleet the snow pushing towards the the west coast pushing over the high ground by the time we do

really help that al-jazeera the white house adopted a fountain as the senior vice president of vaccine research and development blue with biologics we speak to him quite often he explained earlier why if d.n.a. approval is necessary in order to export these vaccines. i think there is no holding they shoes that the f.d.a. has ruled that they any medicine should get approval by the f.d.a. you cannot just distribute medicines odd around or go to different countries because if they were they the united states would provide the as the us that is in a comeback seems to david about you want to say ok it's not something that's not good for them medic and whites good for the others so there is really a double edged sword here and therefore what does the oil just have this is that and even before the u.s. that has an account vaccine will be provided outside the united states the f.d.a. has to to get the the ok from the f.d.a. to do that so if the is an independent agency that you know sent this that doctors and physicians make the decision so that would be the best approach to it which is really that rig

this compares with over 740000000 euros in funding for vaccine research.we need tens of thousands of volunteers for testing that's what costs a lot of money and where you simply need larger sums. by money to live. when you vaccinate healthy people you need a lot more healthy people then when you're testing a drug that is targeted at the sick. bike. recently however the federal government appears to have rethought the issue and further funds have already been announced. we lost many many months because the financial resources were simply not available for the drug developers we can no longer afford to keep wasting time. kora therapeutics says it needs 50000000 euros to reach the emergency approval stage german government funds won't be enough for this so the biotech start up has been speaking to international investors. now antiviral treatments attack the virus and stop it multiplying but the virus doesn't fight fair using our own cells to reproduce and finding a treatment is difficult at the best of times let alone during a pandemic. so far the only antivi

of decadence and there is a whole set of potential medical breakthroughs from the push the vaccination research gave us and beyond that, you can tell a story where a society that has been through something like this becomes more open to pushing ahead with other forms of technology. there are other writers arguing the stagnation will come to an end and it will have a series of breakthroughs with self driving cars. and if that happens we will look back and say covid was a hinge moment out of that decadence in some areas i am more pessimistic with the media trends we are talking about. if you think of not people having relationships are getting married drifting through life reasonably well off and attached with people not being able to go out on dates for one year or get married very real covid baby best is a bad sign maybe there will be a bounce back effect on economic that is a fertility bill but right now fishing everybody deeper into their screens away from human contact deepens a decadence i'm talking about. with politics who knows you could say where covid killed off a couple of rebellions.

what we're saying now is a failure that was foretold in your when vaccine manufacturing and vaccine researchst began. what is happening today is humility failures over the last year, -- accumulative failures of the last year, many of which could been avoided. of the vaccines available in the world, there are from pfizer and moderna not available outside rich cntries. astrazeneca is one of the few countries that has made its vaccine a little more available, primarily by signing an agreement with the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world who happens to be located in india. now, the problem is that with a signed over with the rights to supply vaccineso 92 poor countries around the world, including india essentially to one vaccine manufacturer with very few backups stop what that has meant is that you have these 92 countries that are dependent upon one company that operates on indian soil. but it sure population, can you should get about 35% of these vaccines. but what is happening is the indian government is acquiring far more of those vaccines and 35% at this moment and for the next couple

this work was done was a group -- with great intensity also at the nih vaccine research center, and i circled two investigators on the slide pit the one in the lower left is peter, who is predominantly an hiv investigator, and the one on the upper right is bonnie, who is much more interested in respiratory virus. next slide. what peter did is that he used this structure-based vaccine designed to get the right confirmation of the hiv envelope in what is called a pre-fusion form, which would be the most immunogenic and combined to broadly neutralizing antibodies. next slide. when bonnie graham took his interest in virus and collaborated in the same lab with peter and jason mcmillan, they had a major back through -- breakthrough, developing mutations that stabilize the immunogen to make it be used successfully for an rsv vaccine, but the story goes on. next slide. when mayors came about, they did the same thing in an attempt to develop a coronavirus vaccine, namely taking the spike protein and stabilizing it by mutations into a pre-fusion form. then, the combination of the story, next sl

up to cuban scientists' predictions, this small, poor island will be on the cutting edge of vaccine research. cuba says its vaccines will comply with international standards, and eventually the island hopes to sell or donate their vaccines to other countries. but as the number of cases remain at record levels here and the economy is plummeting, cuban officials announced a far wider test of the vaccine candidates that would volunteer millions of volunteers. with this expanded study, just the vaccine candidate, not the placebo, will be administered, health officials said. even if officials don't call it mass vaccination, they hope the campaign will bring the virus under control. most adults in havana, the epicenter of the virus here, could be vaccinated by may, officials said. "for 19 years and older, we will be working that population in this intervention, practically 2 million people." while cuban officials say taking the vaccine will not be mandatory, it will be, say, strongly encouraged by health officials going door to door and in slickly produced government videos like this, which says r

gandhi says the key to deciding whether a booster shot is needed is to monitor people who are vaccinated. researchers need to determine if a variant can penetrate the vaccine. >> anyone who received the vaccine shot in the vaccine trials actually receive them in the summer. july 2020. we are not seeing breakthrough infections, even in the setting of surges and persistent cases in the united states. >> dr. gandhi says it's not looking like boosters will be necessary, both pfizer and moderna plan to have them on the market by the end of the year. >>> researchers at stanford are working on a new covid-19 vaccine. the hoping it'll help fight the pandemic in the world. abc9 7 news reporter liz peÑa a start of the vaccine team get she explains how this vaccine would work. >> reporter: the war against covid-19 has unleashed a new generation of cutting-edge vaccines. some, using generic code to turn our own self into tiny vaccine factories. but in the years to come, some researchers believe an old- school approach may help get more vaccines applies to countries that need them. >> many developing countries ha

pfizer announcing their vaccine is 100% effective in preventing covid-19 in kids ages 12 to 19. >> 100%. a hospital in ohio played an essential part of the research to 11. leading that team is dr. robert frank of the vaccine research center at the cincinnati children's hospital. doctor, good morning. we have seen footage of some of these pharmaceutical companies around a table wearing masks and they're hearing about the efficacy and they jump up when it exceeds their expectation. is that what happened in your office? >> absolutely. we really weren't hoping to see efficacy in the teenagers because the study was designed for just seeing the immune response. that was tremendous news that we could see it was that efficacious. >> can you tell us what this means for schools returning in the fall? >> i think what it means is that pfizer will ask for their eua to be for those 12 years of age and above. at cincinnati we started studies for kids under 12 years of age. that's gone well so far. we've enrolled our first five. we'll start more this week. i think it means in the next six months or so we'll have vaccines for younger kids. >> so i want to talk wi

vaccine factories. but in the years to come, some researchers believe an old school approach may help. to get more vaccine supplies to countries that need them. >> many countries are yet to receive a single dose and that reflects the inequity. >> reporter: to help bridge the gap, professor palentra and colleagues of the university of washington have begun experimenting in what's known a sub unit vaccine. the platform deploys an antigen from a dead sample of the virus to trigger an immune response. he says it's known around the world. >> they represent one of the main kinds of vaccines including the hepatitis vaccine and tetanus and so on. >> reporter: but to make their candidate more effective against covid-19 the team is adding helpers known as adjuventa. along with collaborators they tested five in a nonhuman primate study including one that seemed to help with the south south african strain of covid. they could easily distribute it globally since it doesn't require a deep cold freezer or other special handles. >> that's where i think vaccines such as these have really an important co

is considering loosening its outdoor mask recommendation as and more americans are getting vaccinated. researchers are trying to figure out whether vaccinated people can still get the virus or transmitted to other people, but officials are reminding that the virus is not gone. america is still seeing more than 50,000 new covid cases every day. >>> let's go back to learn more about the johnson & johnson decision that should be happening today. >> we will try this one more time. 7 million doses had already been administered when officials made the decision 10 days ago to pause administering the j&j vaccine after six women developed extremely rare blood clots. the cdc panel declined to make a decision until it has more data or resume injections immediately with a label warning of adverse reactions. if resumed, the u.s. would be joining europe, where health officials decided days ago the benefits outweigh the risks. more than 134 million americans have received at least one dose of a covid vaccine, 52% of all adults. however, it appears some americans are weary of the vaccines across the country. seei

vaccine. new research suggests both the pfizer and moderna vaccines are safe and effective for moms to be. meantime, vaccine advisers are set to meet tomorrow to discuss johnson & johnson's single dose vaccines, pause for use after reports of rare blood clots. cbs news is reporting it is likely the vaccine will be approved for use again, but this time with a warning. >>> frightening doorbell video of illinois shows a four-year- old boy being crushed by a nearly 100 pound box that had just been delivered to his home. >> he was trying to carry it inside. not to worry, the story has a happy ending. >> reporter: an attempt to help leaves them in a dangerous bind. he cries out after a box just delivered to the front porch tumbles over, trapping him. >> i was scared i was going to fall down the stairs. >> reporter: he recalls the frightening moments. >> i always get the packages. >> this one was just what? >> i couldn't get it. the package man got it. >> reporter: max is known for bringing in the packages for his mom. but this time he hears the doorbell and doesn't know what the driver drops off

filling up as well >> reporter: hoping to quickly reach herd immunity, states should open all vaccines new research suggesting moderna's vaccine, like pfizer's, remains effective for at least six months. but even as the u.s. averages 3 million vaccinations a day with 69 shots into arms so far, variants are fueling new worries. still, states like new jersey with rising cases and hospitalizations are already loosening more restrictions. the country eager to move forward while still facing the threat of its deadly past. miguel almaguer, nbc news. >>> president biden is paving the way for his infrastructure bill today he is set to speak about his $2 trillion plan this afternoon and what it would mean for americans. but the proposal could hit a wall in congress nbc's tracie potts joins us now with the latest. tracie, good morning this plan is coming under fire from both sides of the aisle >> right, phillip. too little, too much, is it the i don't think focus. republicans are questioning whether things like housing and child care should be part of an frukz bill president bush criticizing them saying some

the united states led the way on vaccine research and got three of them out in record time to get peoplek to normal. here we are as a country standing up after the communist chinese party put us down for a year and we are back. the leadership in washington is here to represent the people. we are moving forward. but instead commit is the opposite while biden is telling everyone to get vaccinated acting like no one is vaccinated. it makes no sense. >> jesse: none of it made sense, dana, one part in particular said saving the planet will save jobs and i thought to myself, why did everyone lose their job when you killed keystone? wasn't that supposed to be saving the planet? >> dana: that was one of them. he did use the word jobs a lot. but there was no nods and also no nods to children out of school for a year. and talking about the teachers. and so there was a missed opportunity there. and even a grace note to say the administration got this vaccine underway and here we are. none of that. i guess we shouldn't be surprised on that. biden won by a very narrow margin. the big issue with covid

risk of dangerous blood clots is far higher in coronavirus patients, then in those who get vaccinated, researchers at oxford university say catching covid-19 can cause an 8 to 10 times greater risk of blood clots in the brain. for those who get the pfizer or moderna shots. scientists say they found that about 39 of every 1 million coronavirus patients was likely to experience a dangerous clotting complication. researchers say the side effects are still being studied. and arm. soreness is a pretty common side effect from getting the vaccine. so tiktok users have circulated a solution videos like this one. peoele swinging their arms and wide circle windmill style after getting their doses. sort as hack has now gone viral. but the question is does it really work ucsf infectious disease specialist doctor peter chin-hong is here. >> so doctor, your looks a little odd. apparently it does work. >> yeah, it does work at it i like it. for 2 reasons. first of all, you know, that shot is giving in the muscles enter a muscular the immune system doesn't care where it is just going to go where shot. and so if i

gregory poland, mayo vaccine research group director. dr. poland: where a possible safety signal is raised, it is appropriate to gather all the data and look. this is stellar evidence of a superb vaccine safety surveillance system that we have in the u.s. that could become a risk as small as one in a million. alix: let's get to that because if that is the science behind this, the reality of how it is going to be talked about on the ground be very different. what needs to happen to bridge that gap? dr. poland: it is tough because the public doesn't really understand that there are background rates associated with this, so between one and as high as 15 people per million per year develop these kind of unusual clotting syndromes. so the question is, is this happening at a rate greater than what we would expect from background? i know that will be widely misunderstood. alix: do you think there's going to be the case where the uptake with j&j is going to be akin to what we saw with astra in europe as early as two weeks ago? dr. poland: yes, i thin

don't have the information they can't make educated decisions about whether or not to get the vaccine researchemselves as high risk so they would skip the shot into the lack of public messaging targeted towards them contributes to the problem. 19 year old reidel anthony jr says. easy info on social media would help build his confidence. i don't really feel comfortable yet, so i'll rather wait until that maybe. no. the year or something. i don't know. there's really depends on when my family gets sick. usf public health researcher angela makris says some places are stepping in. there's a lot of universities that adopting student led initiatives. a lot of influences that relating away on tiktok's and on instagram backwards, says local governments can help to get a community outreach and create, you know, advisory boards or focus group on get people that of 18 to 24 year olds to work with them. to create the messaging that will also be more genuine and also speak their language. yeah. all right. this is just coming in a group of police chiefs from the south. they received a first hand. look today

a vaccine researcher and an advocate. >> i mean, i get hate mail on a weekly basis.been physically threatened and physically harassed. and i've had three legitimate death threats. the kind that get investigated by the fbi. >> reporter: over the years, critics have called him everything from a terrorist to a mouth piece for big pharma. pushing vaccines, they say, because he receives profits from the ones he developed. one post said, offit should be prosecuted for crimes against our children. another, i will hang you by your neck until you are dead. offit tells everyone that he's not motivated by money but rather driven by memories. >> i mean, my parents were children of the '20s and '30s. they saw diphtheria as a killer of teenagers, polio as a crippler. i had measles, mumps, german measles, chicken pox. i know what those diseases felt like. >> what a vivid perspective from dr. paul offit who is just the nicest guy and been so helpful to all of us in understanding this pandemic and such a wonderful doctor and researcher in philadelphia. sanjay, is there any sign that

with fears the variants could be worse in children than the original strain, vaccine researchers are now focusing on trials on children. >> excellent. >> reporter: dr. angelica's 3- year-old daughter is in stanford's hospital pfizer trial. >> we are so lucky we have a healthy child. >> knowing that she would have some of the vaccine also just with everything opening back up and going back to day care, i think was really helpful for us in making the decision. >> reporter: and we'll have all the coronavirus headlines and the very latest on the race to vaccinate. coming up at 7:00 a.m.. with your gma first look i'm kena whitworth. >>> sounds of nature can improve your health. researchers at carlton university found sounds like water flowing, birds chirping can decrease pain, lower stress, improve mood. the team found that sounds of water were most effective at improving positive emotions. i was in big sir over the weekend. the ocean, the river during our hike. did you hear water? >> yes, i did. because i went to a winery that was right next to the dry creek. it was really cool. >> beaut

vaccine. researchers say that rates of miscarriages and other complications were similar to other reports beforestration kicking off a new campaign to get more americans vaccinated. the we can do this live initiative will target young people through social media. expect to see doctors, scientists and celebrities all taking part. that campaign comes as officials are raising concerns that vaccine hesitancy could be slowing the pace of shots in arms. president biden just mashed the milestone of 200 million vaccines administered. so far, just a little over half of all adults have received at least one shot. miguel almaguer with more on the slowing pace and what that could mean. >> reporter: as the nation surpassed 32 million cvid infections, at least 200 million shots have been given in the first 100 days of the biden administration. the focus now turns to those who are a little hesitant to get vaccinated. we know about 20% or one in five adults in the country say they are not going to get a vaccine as soon as one is available, which is going to hamper the race to herd immunity. we know covid cases

basic scientific research is left decadent than the cdc. the fact that what we did with vaccines was not decadent. but we did was testing at the pandemic the reflected all off the kind of institutional failures that i'm calling decadent for this uneven distribution within the country, within a culture. and then there is also uneven distribution worldwide. there are ways in which, especially in demographics and birthrates that east asia looks as decadent or more decadent than the western world.wo what comes what you might call state capacity the capacity of government to respond nimbly and political and cultural forces, which is the kind of thing that we associate in the u.s. with how we won world war ii. that seems much stronger in east asia. including anglo nations in australia and new zealand then in either the u.s. or western europe. the story ito was hinting at in that column that is now much more agreed-upon is whatever went wrong in the west it is a general problem. it is not a just donald trump problem. as egregious as some of thosese werear. there are clear commonalities