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>> Order today at pretty leader dot com. And you can. >> Rod carter: moderna is working to develop a booster shot that protect against covid-19 and the flu. The company did not reveal a timeline of when that's going to be ready. However, researchers hope to add other vaccinations for respiratory diseases into the annual shot as well. Moderna has not yet been granted full fda approval for its covid vaccine. Now despite record low flu cases. Last year demand for flu shots actually went up doctors. The manufacturers are hoping that that is the case again this year with covid-19 booster set to be given out in the fall. Should people wait before getting a different shot. Cbs 70's lillian donahue. Digging deeper live for us tonight. Million. >> Good evening, guys. The general guidance before now was if you get your covid-19 shot. Have to wait 14 days or 2 weeks before getting any other vaccine or shot. But now the centers for disease control say that that is no longer necessary. Well, today I spoke with should flu shot makers as well as a local doctor for their recommendations and when you get that flu shot and the covid booster this fall. >> We were wearing masks and we were social distancing. And so food never really had a chance to take hold and propagate doctors agree that covid precautions last year, helped lead to record low flu numbers and flu shot himself became a hot commodity in fact, looking at last year's. >> Chris clark: demanding a 20% higher than the year before and were actually forecast to be right around this. The same man about values. Now the company secure is based in. Holly springs is pumping out 60 million flu vaccines this year. Right now, the more people we can immunize against flu. More folks that can stay and the health care system which allows precious resources to be dedicated to covid patients who so desperately need that right now. Health officials are also urging people to get their covid-19 booster. 8 months after receiving initial doses. A unc health doctor says for most. That will mean a natural gap between getting the flu shot. Now. >> And a covid booster later this fall. Once it's approved for the general population. Get your flu shot whenever. >> You you can get one. You can get it in the pharmacy. Probably get in your doctor's office pretty soon. And then you can layer. You loose on top of that at any time. But if you want to get both at the same time. The cdc say there's no need to wait. I think we have enough experience and and kind of confidence that if need be. We could just like we do with other vaccinations. 1, 1, on one knee of arm. >> Now, while us health officials expect covid-19 booster to be more widely available this fall. Right now. They're only recommended for immunocompromised people reporting live in raleigh. Lillian donahue, cbs, 17 news. All right, lilian, thank you. And duke university and unc are teaming up to build an alzheimer's disease research center. The national institutes of health getting for for a 14.8 million dollars to the university's over the next 5 years to create the center. It will be one of 33 across the country. >> Angela taylor: researchers hope to develop new ways to diagnose and treat alzheimer's is a very interesting story. So surgeons at duke university hospital performed the first U.S. pediatric heart transplant using. >> A new method that transplant happened a few weeks ago, august 31st. 14 year old navy rice was the first child patient in the U.S. to undergo something called the donation after circulatory death heart transplant. The fda approved that this week for adults. But duke surgeons received a special approval to use the technology for this young lady now having this option could significantly reduce the wait time for children in need of a donor heart. >> And she had the most important thing a kid needs to get them do anything peppa pig. So peppa pig, though there are good for her. All right. Good for us. We got rid of the rain. A cold front has moved through and it is going to feel great outside tomorrow and most of the weekend. So we'll shut the radar down probably until the middle of next week as the last bit of rain moves in. We can do without a few days rain because we have plenty today. Look at the swath of one to 3 inches here in yellow and green starts down in moore county. This is what fell today came up through wake county. We had some flooding issues to 3 inches up along the virginia border to sow grass. Will greenup farmers going to be happy and we'll spend the next 2 days drying out with low humidity. And some comfortable temperatures. However, with all that water in the ground. We're probably going to have some fog tomorrow. We already have that dense fog advisory through the morning commute tomorrow for areas northeast of the triangle. But I'll tell you what, I think a lot more people will be added to that. The visibilities right now starting to go down. Remember on a clear night are clear morning. All these numbers would say 10 as in 10 miles visibility nearly unlimited. But we're going to see these numbers come down so check in with bill and laura will be here with the rest of the team tomorrow morning at 4.30. You probably have some fog getting out of the neighborhood tomorrow morning. Other than that, it's going to
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