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i'm carl azuz and this is cnn 10 your
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americans between the ages of 12 and 15
years old are now eligible for a
coronavirus vaccine
before monday it was only supposed to be
available for people ages 16 and up
though there are three vaccines being
distributed in the united states
only the one made by the companies
pfizer and biontech is available to
adolescents and young teenagers
and none of the shots has been formally
approved by the u.s food and drug
administration
that process can take years though it
might be sped up for the covet 19
shots the vaccines that are available
have been authorized for emergency use
which means they've gotten special fda
clearance to be administered for the
time being
the authorization for the pfizer drug
came after a clinical trial was carried
out in more than 2 200 people
ages 12 to 15. pfizer says it showed its
vaccine was highly effective and well
tolerated with common side effects
including pains
fatigue headache chills joint pain and
fever
those are the same ones observed in
adults health experts say that
vaccinating young people will better
protect them from getting coronavirus
and from spreading it to people who are
more threatened by it
they estimate that the overall survival
rate for covid19 is about 99 and a half
percent
that's an average across all ages
children are less likely to get
seriously sick from coronavirus than
older adults
the authorization for 12 to 15 year olds
has gotten a mixed reaction from parents
some brought in their children for
inoculations before the centers for
disease control formally recommended
themthat was expected to happen on wednesday
afternoon some have said they're
hesitant or
unwilling to get their kids the shot
because coveted vaccines were developed
faster than any other vaccines in
historyand because they haven't been available
long enough for there to be any
long-term studies on their effects
the cdc says that as of early this week
46 percent of all americans had gotten
at least one dose of a covid19 vaccine
that process has not gone as quickly in
japan
where there's greater resistance to
vaccines than in the us
and where less than three percent of the
population is estimated to have had at
least one dose
the olympics are set to take place in
less than three months
but despite the daily case count
nationwide increasing the number of
patients
with serious symptoms continuing to
break records and with several
prefectures including tokyo under an
extended state of emergency order
it seems olympic organizers are trying
to do everything possible
to keep the games on track for this
summer and according to japan's prime
minister
the decision whether or not to hold the
olympics isn't up to him he said so on
monday during a lower house session
i've never put the olympics first my
priority
has been to protect the lives and health
of the japanese population
the ioc has already made a decision to
hold the games and notified countries as
such
and it's worth noting that the ioc is a
non-profit which generates 90
of its revenue from the summer and
winter games even with no overseas
spectators the broadcasting rights
are a big money maker for them so
clearly the financial stakes here
are enormously high and the ioc will be
doing everything it possibly can
to make sure the games go ahead here's
ioc vice president over the weekend
we're implementing those countermeasures
you've read the playbook you can
you can see those they've all been
counter measures predicated on there
being
no vaccine so that situation's improved
the games are going ahead
ioc president thomas bach was scheduled
to arrive in japan
early next week but because of the
extended state of emergency order
his visit has been postponed and
regarding vaccinations here in japan
less than one percent of the population
has been fully vaccinated
which is a big point of concern for
infectious disease specialists
blake essig cnn tokyo
ten-second trivia which of these nations
has the lowest birth rate
egypt mexico united states or china
with a rate of less than 12 births per
1000 people
china has the lowest birth rate on this
list
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with more than 1 billion 400 million
people china has the largest population
on the planet
but its growth has been slowing down in
recent years
partly because of a controversial policy
that china's communist government
implemented in the late 1970s at that
timeit was afraid its growing population
would hurt its economic growth
so china made it illegal for people to
have more than one child
now however china's having the opposite
problem it may not have enough young
workers to sustain its future economy
china's government says the declining
birth rate is a quote
natural result of economic and social
development
and it puts part of the blame on the
rising costs of raising children
in the world's most populous country
population growth
is slipping according to china's
national bureau of statistics china
posted anaverage growth rate of 0.53 over the
past decade that's 0.04 percent lower
than the previous decade this is china's
slowest population growth
since the 1960s and this is significant
the censushas huge implications for social welfare
healthcare technology
and especially china's economy a
slowdown in population growth means a
slowdown
in workforce growth as well making it
harder for china
to catch up to the us economically
experts saychina's slowing population growth is due
to rising living costs in major cities
and the fact that urban couples value
their independence over having children
there is pressure on beijing to roll out
measures to support population growth
back in 2016 china scrapped its
one-child policy
and replaced it with a two-child policy
but the birth rate has continued to
decline
kristy lustout cnn hong kong
archaeologists have discovered something
extraordinary and
maybe a little gruesome in an ancient
cave on the west coast of italy
among the bones of hyenas elephants
horses and other animals
scientists say they found the remains of
nine neanderthals or neanderthals
a type of primitive human this is
according to the italian cultural
ministry
which says the remains date back tens of
thousands of years
here's where this gets gross researchers
say the neanderthal bones showed
signs of having been gnawed on
suggesting maybe
that animals brought them back to the
cave to eat them archaeologists say two
other neanderthal skulls have been found
here in the past
electric cars were some of the first
cars on american roads back in the late
1800s today though they make up about
one percent of all vehicles driven in
the countrythey're less pollutive to drive than gas
powered cars and they offer more design
options without a big engine and
transmission getting in the way
but they're more expensive it takes a
lot longer to charge a battery than to
fill a gas tank
those batteries lose their ability to
hold a charge over time
and environmentalists have concerns
about endangering certain plants
when the lithium for ev batteries is
mined
despite that sales of electric cars are
expected to rise in the years ahead
in 2018 the number of electric vehicles
on the world's roads reached over 5
milliona 40 increase from the year before that
momentum should continue
prices for battery power have fallen
rapidly over the last few years
and are expected to continue dropping as
more battery factories are built
and manufacturing technologies improve
but for now there are challenges
slowing wider adoption of electric
vehicles for starters they need more
rangemore places to charge and just more
variety
today's electric offerings tend to fall
on either end of a spectrum
on one hand cheap hatchbacks that are
still more expensive than their
gasoline-powered equivalents
on the other hand pricey luxury cars
that said all of this will change over
the next few years as automakers bring
more electric cars to market available
as electric
hybrid and plug-in hybrid the good news
is that the mechanical simplicity of
electric cars they have a fraction of
the moving parts in a gasoline car
makes designing and engineering new
model variants relatively easy
plus companies like volkswagen and
general motors are also backing rollouts
of bigfast charging networks with all this on
the way some analysts predict that
within the next 20 years
evs will make up the majority of cars
sold
mighty morphing power pasta 10 out of
10.the twists spirals and tubes that
prepackaged pasta comes in make it fun
to eatand important for the souls but a lot of
its packaging is filled with
air to accommodate the shapes so
researchers at carnegie mellon
university found a way to
stamp noodles so they curl up and roll
when they're cooked but so they can be
packaged in smaller flatter boxes
they say this could save space and
packaging waste
you can see the appeal and as long as
people can't deloney taste the
difference
maybe critics will pay me nothing but
ravioli reviews
or so you thought you can't tell you
tell everyone the spaghetti
on the flat noodle bandwagon for them
it's too far
fall of fetch for flat-faced fettuccine
to vermicella it just seems fucilly
bucharest christian academy gets today's
shout out it is so good to have you
watching from bucharest romania
i m carl azuz for cnn