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New 12's Rich Barrabi was joined by Dr. Sharon Nachman to talk about the BA.2 variant, a possible fourth COVID-19 shot, and when vaccines could be available to children under 5.

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I mean, the cold, the first cold snap of the season. Oh, Scott, it's rough out there. Yeah, I'm gonna need a bigger jacket when I get there because, uh, we are gonna be seeing these temperatures not just for today but into tomorrow as well. Mainly in the mornings but all day long, it's gonna be brisk. It's gonna be breezy. But come Friday, we are gonna be going back to that spring tea. So temperature is gonna be back in the forties and fifties. But this morning it will feel like the twenties throughout the boroughs and then that's the way it's gonna be into the afternoon. And then same story as we head into the evening hours, we'll even be dropping to feel like the teens across the city. So bundle up jacket gloves, hand warmers, moisturize hydrate as well. Very important as we're seeing these clear skies. But as we go into the day today, gusty winds, more sunshine gonna be beautiful but make sure to bundle up because it's gonna feel like the teens and twenties all day long because of this, all this cold air pushing through, but look flurries. Yes, that's white on there, a couple of bits of the white stuff are possible to move on into the city as we go into the day today. So all in, all looking pretty good as we go into the afternoon, but still bundle up temperatures gonna be in the thirties, maybe a straight flurry or two from lunch time into the afternoon and evening. So, yeah, definitely a chance for some of that snow as temperatures are be dropping into the twenties. But we feel much colder into your Wednesday tomorrow. So, upper thirties to around 40 today, but it feel like the twenties because that cold, the wind and even the possibility of snow, overnight temperatures are gonna drop into the twenties, mostly clear but feels like the teens and this cold will be lasting as we head into the day tomorrow. 40 degrees. The high will still feel like the twenties on Wednesday because of a brisk breezy wind. 49 Thursday, 47 Friday with the chance of a few showers late in the day and then more chance of forties and fifties as we go into the month of December.

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And you see him. How do you say it? Poinsettia is what I've always been brought up with. I say it either way. I in there saying poet, he looked at you like, how do you say it? You Yeah, I think you can say you just saying that whatever Becky says. That's right. Good man. I say it's called so point set is out. I guess you gotta bring them in. Yeah, you gotta bring them in big time, which is really only gonna grow colder tonight into your tomorrow as well. Well, temperatures already feel like the twenties for some spots. We're not making it out of the thirties for today. 49 is we're, we're considering average for this time of year. But as we look at your futurecast throughout this morning, we're still gonna work with some sunshine, clear skies for the early parts of your morning. But notice number seven o'clock, you're sitting at the Freezing Mark Bridgeport at 3226 for Cornwall as you're making your way up north, that's where you're gonna find the cooler spots. We won't rule out a few flakes in the mix as we head throughout our afternoon as well. Numbers will try to get into the forties. But again, we're really tapping out to the upper thirties heading into this afternoon. We're gonna start to see a few more clouds into the mix. Late tonight into your tomorrow, tomorrow morning, everyone is gonna be in the twenties, lower twenties for areas up north. But again, we have that wind in, in effect. So it's gonna really feel like the teens for some spots as well. It'll be another day where we're tapping out in the thirties for your afternoon as again, it's gonna be a chilly next couple of days feeling like midwinter again for your Tuesday 39 for orange, 39 for Bridgeport, 35 for those up to Torrington and Thomaston. And again for tonight, make sure the windows are shut. It's gonna be another cold one. Numbers are dropping off down into the twenties. Again, that extended forecast does show improvement numbers wise as we head into your Thursday and Friday. But we're watching late Friday into your Saturday for the next chance of some rain.

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Hudson Valley

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Wanna get back to Hilda now talking more about temperatures when we have bitter blast. We know they're not looking too good, Hilda. No, that's right. And then we add also on to the factor of those active winds kind of influences that wind chill and over like feels currently not too bad as we're waking up, kind of getting into the teens in places like white plains, Newburg and up also into Kingston. But we could notice that as we progress throughout the afternoon hours, that's also when we'll notice a shift in wind out of the northwest and adding on to that cooling factor that will also descend even further. Our feels like for tomorrow morning in the meantime, as we're heading out the door and getting ready for the school bus of 32 degrees, but it definitely feels like the twenties. We have to dress for this specific um range of temperatures this morning. We'll notice though that the icons, although they're windy, we'll notice a mixture of sun and clouds today and it will still continue to feel chilly and of course, that chilled wind will also be here for this afternoon. Now notice what's a good component when we're talking about winter weather as well as how cold it is. Those little white spots that you could, you guessed it. We're talking about snow. Well, not too much of as far as accumulations go, but some lake effect snow across the Great Lakes is kind of he heading our way with that westerly wind and that means that those snow bands could eventually mean some of festive flurries and snow flakes for us. Now, the cold will stay persistent for today as well as tomorrow. And we could notice with brisk conditions today, winds gusts upwards to 25 mile per hour range and it will feel relatively frigid. I would like to describe for tomorrow. Now, we are also monitoring the po potential for some rain by Friday and possibly impacting weekend plans over the next 12 hours. We'll notice some sunshine, then it becomes a little bit more limited with more clouds. The winds will become a bit more gusty also into the afternoon time frame and we will stay pretty consistent into those twenties. So we definitely need to be mindful of how bundled up we are today as well as tomorrow. We are highlighting the potential for another day of concern for your Wednesday with these cold temperatures overnight, lows into the twenties and teens and we feel a little bit better when it comes to the temperatures for both Thursday and Friday heading into the weekend with a potential for some rain showers. Also in their forecast. We have more details and our exclusive 10 day in minutes.

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And Riz, which means romantic appeal or charm. Never heard of that one. Yeah, me neither. Have you rich? No, I would expect Jen would hear about it. All right, let's talk about the weather. We got some cold weather out here for today and we're gonna be looking at some, uh, temperatures feeling like the teens and twenties the next couple of days. It's not just the air temperature, it's the wind. That will be the problem. So if you got to stand on those trading platforms, work outside those landscapers, construction people bundle up. You're going to be looking at winds gusting 20 to 30 MPH. Temperatures this morning starting out are in the thirties and when that wind it feels much colder. Take a look right now. We're at 33 degrees starting out. We had 32 in midtown, 34 degrees right now in Huntington, 34 from Hempstead, the Valley Stream and 39 degrees right now in Montauk winds gusting 20 to 25 MPH. So when you have, uh, air temperature in the thirties, winds gusting 20 to 25 the wind chill what it feels like. So, for the kids at the bus stop this morning. Or yourself going to work being outside for a prolonged period of time with that gusty wind, it just cuts right you with wind chills right now at 24 in Huntington 25. Good morning, Smithtown 27 Riverhead, 31 over towards Bridgehampton, 33 right now in Montauk. So it's cold to start throughout the day. Our friends in Sasa take a look. It's sunshine with some clouds coming in during the afternoon. Between one and four, we get a reinforcing shot of cold air. There will be a chance of a few passing flurries so dry. Now there's our snow around Binghamton, a quick little snow squall. We'll watch that this afternoon that there will be the threat of a quick snow shower or a few flurries this afternoon. And you can see these temperatures mid and upper thirties. It's going to be cold this afternoon. Around 330. Right there, there's a little flurry coming on through. So just be alert for that. The big story will be the cold weather today and tomorrow feels like temperatures throughout our day are in the twenties and into your Wednesday morning, feels like temperatures will be in the teens right around 10 to 20 degrees. So cold weather is with us and then we get a warm up by Friday. But unfortunately, it comes with some rain so highs today, thirties to around 40 it's cold the afternoon. Flurries tonight. Lows are in the twenties, wind chills in the teens and then take a look to cold weather tomorrow. Warming up Thursday, rain Friday, and also Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. And we're feeling that.

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New Jersey

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That's a good question. Here's meteorologist, Mike Wizo Thursday. How's that? So Thursday temperatures rebound sim and conditions across New Jersey just have to get colder between now and then. So for today, we'll notice that the, the air really sharply comes in tonight. So we start to feel like, what, 17 degrees in Sussex County later on this evening at 930. Uh, not too, uh, you know, it's, it's not the worst cold we've seen. Uh, but, you know, I, I want to say it's not too bad, but for some of us it's like, all right, this is annoying. This is cold, right? So just bundle up, think the air feels sharp. You want to bite back at it by wearing warm clothes. And that's the case for tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning. Feel like temperatures all across the state, not just the northwest corner now going to be between what, 12 or 13 degrees and about 17 degrees. That's a feel like temperature in the morning. So it just feels nasty tomorrow morning, especially the wind 15 to 25 MPH, maybe gusts near 30 at times. It does rebound a little bit by the afternoon, feeling closer to the freezing mark, but high temperatures don't get out of the thirties. It's just going to be again a cold day. There's only so many ways I can say it. So the winds coming in from the west 15 to 25 MPH gusts up to 30 as we head through today into tomorrow morning. And that's essentially it with the wind and the cold and how it settles in, we start to rebound as we turn into Thursday. So that's something to look forward to with high temperatures tomorrow. Similar to today. The only difference is that tomorrow's air is drier and we have a different type of air kind of settling in to the state. That's why we're going to feel a little sharper tomorrow when compared to where we're at today. Because today's temperatures are very similar to tomorrow's afternoon temperatures with a high of 3839 degrees. Here's Thursday's forecast. You'll notice that the rebound comes in with upper forties, 4950 degrees in parts of the state, upper forties in the northern tier. With those temperatures rebounding, we do end up with a sunny weather. So it actually is going to be rather nicer Thursday and that's it for the cold, at least for now. It's just one small shot of cold between today and tomorrow. Back to the fifties. We go for the weekend rain showers Friday night into early on Saturday. But the weekends mostly cloudy with sprinkles again on Sunday night.

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The New Normal: Should we be worried about the BA.2 variant?

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All right, a lot to talk about today. Dr Nachman But of course let's start with this new variant because you hear dr Fauci at the top there saying it's more transmissible than omicron that seems like a point of concern. Well, it absolutely is. And of course, as you know, it's no surprise every time the virus mutates it tries to stay alive and the best way to mutate and stay alive is to become more infectious with all the masks being off. It's not surprising that a virus that is more infectious is actually spreading more rapidly. But we need to think about how to protect our families. What are the things we need to do? We're having kids in school now without masking and kids are getting sick and the even asymptomatic they're bringing home to their families. What are the things we need to think about to prevent? Our older populations are at risk ones from getting sick. So with this be a two variant, where do you think the numbers lie? And I asked that question because with home testing kits and the fact that not every test goes to 11, it's actually testing for a variant specific strain. It can be hard to tell. Well, there's two different issues here. The first is I'm very excited that people are using those home testing kids because that's a quick rapid answer. Are you positive? Is your kid positive? Should they go to school? Should you go to work or what should you do. But because we're using those rapid tests, that means that a pcr is not getting done and because the pcr is not getting done, we're not able to really sample how much of that variance is out there because once you're positive you stay home you're not getting a confirmatory test. We're not requiring this. So we really don't have a perfect handle on exactly how much of that variant is out there. The fact is the state will test some of those PcR is not all of them. And that snapshot will tell us about how much of all the samples that they see are the variant. Oh macron threw us for a loop and it changed our way of life for a few months then it receded and we moved on. Does this variant have the potential to do the same type of thing? Well I think that a lot of people that had omicron are probably resistant to this new virus I suspect because of the very short timeframe between when omicron hit and the variant is now hitting. Everyone has a good amount of immunity. So I think that's the really good news. But the problem is the longer the variant is sitting around and passing from susceptible person to susceptible person and with waning immunity with omicron just like we saw with the alpha strain and the delta strain, that means we could have a potential problem later on this year, perhaps in the full or even the winter. So we need to keep a handle on how many people are getting the variant. And more importantly, our people getting all of the vaccine boosts that they need and that's really what's driving new york to say, please get your kids vaccinated because that vaccine in Children is going to also help prevent all those cases from coming into the house if this new variant is more transmissible as we've come to expect as you mentioned with every new variant, is it safe to say that it is a weaker strain? It really doesn't have that kind of language of a weaker strain or a stronger strain. There are two things that we think about. One is how infectious is the virus and then number two, how deadly is the virus? So while omicron was in fact quite deadly for people with no vaccines, for those that had some immunity or had a vaccine recently, it really wasn't deadly at all for the most part. So we can't really say both are present at the same time. Yes, it's a coronavirus that people haven't seen and we do worry about that. But for those who are vaccinated or at some immunity to a recent illness that strain did not cause severe disease. And that's good news for us. And then lastly on this topic of the new variant, dr Nachman do we have a feeling that the vaccines that we currently have will hold up strong against the new variant actually that has already been tested and interestingly enough, the vaccines that we use for the alpha strain are still protecting those patients for getting them from getting serious disease. Even with this new variant. So yes. Well, but the boosters with the original strain are still holding up good for our immunity for us for when we see these new variants now. All right. Let's talk about our kids masks are off. Mostly there's you know, some people still choosing to wear them. Some people not. Uh some people make the decision based on where they are with their kids. Whether it be school, maybe they make one decision there in a crowded supermarket. Maybe they make another and so on and so forth. But what we are seeing Doctor noc's when at least anecdotally for me, these kids are getting sick. Not necessarily with Covid, but they're coming home with colds. They're coming home with the stomach bug and this is stuff we really haven't seen for a couple of years now. Right. Remember the masks were not just for Covid but they worked for all of those other respiratory viruses. So we did see a little blip of flu or some other viruses. But for the most part you and I and our families and our communities didn't see the routine viruses that we expect to see. We have parents calling and worried their kid is sick every week. And what we tell them is it's not a surprise all of those viruses that were out there are still out there and your kids are going to see them now because they're not having masks on and they're going to get sick. It's just like when your kid first started school beit preschool or daycare, remember they were sick at least once a month, sometimes twice or three times a month. That's a routine thing to see when you're in a new environment or exposed to new viruses. And our kids that are in school that have been masked for a year to two years, they're going to see all those new viruses and get them one after another. So many parents out there saying, oh I didn't miss this, that's for sure. Hey let's talk about vaccines here for Children under the age of five. Do we have any sense dr Nachman of when that vaccine could be available for kids you know every day. I'm optimistic and say I'm hoping that it's going to be submitted to the FDA soon. I know that all the clinical trial units are doing their hardest to get the kids in, get them boosted, get the blood draws, submit the information to both fights and moderna. It's really in the company's hands right now is do they have the data, has it been looked at and are they ready to submit? I'd love to say it's happening immediately but I don't have the answer to that. I'm hoping it will be done before the summer for the older kids who are currently eligible to get vaccinated, we're seeing the numbers decline in terms of new vaccinations. Right? Especially as the covid numbers are low across the tri state. Do you get a sense that parents may take another look at this over the summer? And as we get into the fall in a new school year, I think that with every variant more people are saying, wait a second, do I really want my kids sick? Do I want them out of school? Do I want them home and infecting me? And I'm hoping that over the next few months more and more parents will say, okay, now is the time to get my kids vaccinated. You know, it's interesting. The CDC had a study that looked at how close was the availability of vaccine to people's homes and they said, oh, it's within five miles. And you know, most of us were saying five miles sounds awful short. But for families that have no cars and no ability to get to a vaccine spot, five miles is 100 miles away. So what new york is doing now by moving vaccines closer to where the kids are beat in schools or pop up tents or something like that. That's actually going to allow families who are thinking about vaccinating to actually get their kids the vaccines they need. So I want to say, I think that more families will get their vaccines, particularly over the next few months. Even with the numbers going down because it's becoming more part of our standard practice with Children. Yeah, I was gonna ask you, you know, it's such a politically charged issue right now for so many. But do you expect this decision to become somewhat more routine the way we look at other vaccines over the next few months and years? I am absolutely hopeful that it will be when I talk to are pediatricians in the community, they in fact do have vaccines in their offices and they're using it. So it is starting to get into routine practice. Families are talking to their pediatricians getting the right information and discussing it with them in an open format and it's not being relegated to what's being talked about online, those discussions face to face are happening and more and more families are getting their kids vaccinated. And lastly, are we getting a little lucky here with our timing being that the weather is getting warmer and while the new variant is now here we're going to be outside a lot more than we were over the last few months. So while we'll be outside, a lot of us are back in our offices, our kids are back in school full time. So you're right part of the day is outside but a good part of it now is inside with other people. So while the weather is nice to see that we're outside. A lot of us. You and I and all of our colleagues are actually still inside and seeing people now face to face.

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