Good morning, and welcome to Kid News! I'm Tori. It's Tuesday, March 2, 2021, and we

begin with the stars seeming to continually align for one young person to follow her dreams.

When Haley Arseneau was 10, she successfully battled bone cancer and went on to become

a physician's assistant. Now, the 29-year-old has been selected to be the youngest person

ever launched into the cosmos. The space enthusiast was chosen among hundreds of Saint Jude

staff members to represent the Memphis Tennessee Hospital on the first ever all-civilian space

flight arranged by SpaceX. The fundraiser for the famous Children's Hospital will require

rigorous training and is tentatively scheduled to blast off at the end of this year. Haley

tells the Associated Press that her battle with cancer really prepared her for space travel,

saying it made me tough, taught me to expect the unexpected, and go along for the ride.

There's a lot of talk about the COVID-19 vaccine, but right now it's primarily available for

people 18 and older. So what about kids? Dr. Anthony Fauci now predicts that those under the age

of 12 won't get the shot until the end of the year at the earliest, more likely the first

quarter of 2022. On Sunday, the White House Chief Medical Advisor said on NBC's Meet the Press

that there are ongoing studies examining the effectiveness of the vaccine on grammar school

kids, but it'll be a while before enough data is collected to make sure the vaccine is safe for them.

He does expect high school students to be able to be vaccinated. Sometime this fall,

pretty close to the first day of school. When you go to see a doctor, you expect to have his or

her full attention. So it was pretty shocking that a California surgeon appeared on a Zoom call

with a Sacramento Superior Court while performing surgery. As first reported in the Sacramento B,

Dr. Scott Green had to be in court virtually for a traffic violation. On the call, he was seen dressed

in his surgical scrubs, operating on a patient who was out of the camera's view with medical

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