with one dose in certain situations. the complications that we see are clustered around that second dose and they are this. they mirror the adult complication profile. about 10% of kids have a side effect in that age group 5-11. some have high grade fevers, about 6%, and there has been one death that was reported in the new england journal of medicine out of 136 kids with that myocarditis. one question of parents, if we get our kid vaccinated and the population vaccinated is it a certain level can, they finally take off the masks at school? yes, i do think kids should be liberated, after they have either had covid or they have been vaccinated they need to live their lives and we re still talking about an infection that for healthy kids has a case fatality rate similar to influenza. john: i want to ask you about breakthrough cases. there does seem to be a lot of them. is it just a function of more
initially i had low grade fevers and general sense of malaise and i assumed maybe it was another cold virus that lay dormant during the pandemic, resurfacing with the flu and i decided to get tested and to my surprise it came out positive. do you know was this the delta variant? i do not know, but to be honest that s the first thing that came to my mind, is this the delta variant given it s the coverage it s been getting in the media. it s also possible that there s been some decrease or deteriorating in my immunity. it s been six months since i got the vaccine and it s not clear how long how good the vaccine is in terms of providing immunity, or obviously could be a combination of both. charles: well, we saw in the u.k. where some of the restrictions were extended because of the rise of the variants.
cramps, diarrhea, sometimes bloody diarrhea and fevers, seek help because it can change and get the kidney failures and if you remember in arizona in the spring, five deaths associated with that. what do you do if this happens? because people get those kinds of symptoms all the time. does it should it change your behavior? should you tell your doctor? maybe you had lettuce. if you had romaine lettuce and getting the symptoms, talk to your doctor. if you don t know if you did or don t think you did, see what happens over the next few hours. getting worse, especially if you start getting diarrhea, severe cramps, bloody diarrhea and low grade fevers, seek medal help at that point. talk about other recall warnings, not just romaine lettuce but beef, ground turkey and cake mix. and i think what you are seeing happening here is a product of the distribution system. used to be the question i get from people all the time, why are we seeing so many recalls