that because inflation is not going anywhere. even after the midterm spirit as much as joe biden wants to tell us that the price of gas is dropping like a stone, we know that is not the case. kara: exactly. we did an analysis and we found that $7400 was lost due to inflation. when you are tightening your belts today, you feel that. that is why you are tightening the belts. does anyone remember when the biden administration tweeted out that the fourth of july barbecue in 2021, eight you were saving $0.16. where s the tweet today? lauren: you are saying going $140 based on march high prices of gasoline. they always pick the worst comparison points. michele: we are still spending more. dr. siegel: i would like to emphasize that point. my daughter worked in tacoma,
the guardian not tosha? this is going to hurtjust reading it, the scale of pupil hunger. varies sad story on the front page of the guardian. according to some analysis from the lib dems, having frozen the threshold for people who get free two meals school meals, hundred thousand are missing out on that. i think it s been frozen at around £7,400, not in line with inflation. more people are taken out of that. there has been calls from food campaigners and other politicians to expand the eligibility of fiscal. that s probably not the sun something the chancellor will make a priority.
months of life about, 82% effective. keep in mind, there is no vaccine right now. so this is 82% against no other alternative right now. 70% effective for the first six months of life. that s what they re finding so far. again, 7,400 women. the company pfizer believes it is strong enough to apply for approval. this has to be independently vetted but it seems pretty promising. there are a few other vaccines out in development. a couple are designed to target older people who are also vulnerable to this disease and to young people. this is the one specifically for moms to pass on to the babies. for those wonder, why there hasn t been a vaccine to date, is it because we haven t seen such spikes in cases for so many years? no. this is an interesting story. people are so used to the mrna story. vaccine vaccine within 11 months. typically it can take a long time. in hiv/aids, 40 years, we still don t have a vaccine. it can take a whale.
pfizer has released new data from its rsv trial. the company says the results are very promising. it is now on track to file for fda approval this year. cnn s chief correspondent is here. what are we learning from this? well, first, this is a bad season for rsv. people are hearing this. ten times the hospitalizations as compared to the two years pre-covid. just to give you some scale here, that is really significant. they ve been testing this particular vaccine in pregnant women. 7,400 pregnant women. the idea is that a pregnant woman, while they themselves may not be vulnerable to this, they can pass the antibodies of this on to their newborn. and what they re finding is pretty impressive. they re trying to figure out how likely is this vaccine going to protect the newborn babies. they find within the first few
to pay more to get less. and to take a victory lap two weeks before the midterm election. steve: you are exactly right, john. so, here s the thing. the president is up in syracuse with the governor, the democrat governor and the democrat majority leader chuck schumer and they are all taking a victory lap. look at what we did for new york. cop on, vote for us. there they are right there. and they all want people to think hey, we are on your side economically, this before you go to the grocery store and wind up paying 100 bucks for a half a bag of groceries. run down the numbers. new yorkers over the last 18 months have paid more than $7,400 more for basic essentials like shelter, food, energy, transportation. but guess what? the 12 month forecast is expected to actually inch high tore 8500. $8,500. so new yorkers are being crushed while these democrats are taking a victory lap.