i'm now enjoying from colombo, my a gum, our political economist, and senior lecture at the university of jap not. don't take it in tomorrow, it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. and you for having me . now not fully done with the coven pandemic, but there is another malays to be spreading around the world. i'm talking about economic and social instability, and your country shall angus is to be the 1st ones effected on a scale of $1.00 to $10.00. how bad it is, this is by far the worst economic and political crisis, sri lanka, it's facing since its independence in 1948 supplies of all kinds of essential goods from petrol and b. so cooking gas medicines and even food stamp fi and short supply and the price of many of these goods have doubled or tripled, making it on the phone bill for people. so by far, it's the worst economic crisis. and this has led to a political crisis of legit you must see in the country there are widespread cause no for the resignation of the president himself, the his brother, the prime minister and the entire cabinet resigned. we've had a new g

jap millions of doses. have been ordered for distribution and will be available from next week. dr. william shaft is a professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university medical center. he says, pediatricians have been eagerly waiting for this moment. you know, if we just look at these children age 6 months through 4 years of age, up to their 5th birthday, thinking back just in the united states, over 20000 of them, 20000 of them have been hospitalized. there have been over 200 deaths in children. this is an opportunity to prevent children, small children from dying. and so it's very exciting. the american academy of pediatrics as well as the c. c. and people such as myself, are enthusiastic about this and are going to be encouraging parents to bring their children into their doctors to be vaccinated. first of all, they're safe. that's very important. parents mostly want to know about that. and then on the effectiveness side, they should have a level of effectiveness against severe disease keeping children out of the hospital comparable to what we have for older children, adolescents, and young adults. in other words, that we think that they'll be abo