20: Kids & Covid: Pediatrician & Covid-19 Expert Dr. Cara Natterson Answers Your Questions

Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Raising Tweens & Teens

Dr. Lisa Damour/Reena Ninan

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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When can your kids get vaccinated? If my child has recovered from Covid-19, how long does immunity last? How do you know when it’s really safe to send your kids back to school? Lisa and Reena get answers to key medical questions about kids and Covid-19 with special guest expert, pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson. CARA NATTERSON, MD, is a pediatrician who has been helping schools with Covid-19 health and safety plans and a New York Times bestselling author of puberty and parenting books. Dr. Natterson pens a weekly newsletter about the intersection of science, parenting, and the coronavirus. Learn more about Dr. Natterson and subscribe to her newsletter at www.worryproofmd.com. For Children Everywhere - The American Lung Association supports your breath through education, advocacy and groundbreaking research. With COVID-19, the lung disease that has stopped the world, support to the Lung Association is needed now more than ever. Donate at www.lung.org Talk to your child about vaping with the American Lung Association's Get Your Head Out of the Cloud conversation guide. Lisa was honored to help develop the conversation guide in collaboration with the American Lung Association. Additional resources: https://www.drlisadamour.com/ Ask Lisa is produced by: Www.GoodTroubleProductions.com Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @AskLisaPodcast @LDamour @ReenaNinan See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	This is Ask Lisa, a podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting, now in the midst of a pandemic.
0:12.2	Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times best-selling parenting books, takes your questions.
0:19.7	And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.
0:23.7	Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting
0:28.5	answers to your parenting questions. So send your questions to Ask Lisa at Dr.Lisademore.com.
0:36.3	Episode 20, pediatrician Dr. Kara Madatterson talks to us about kids in COVID.
0:45.2	So you know when you have a question about your kid medically and then you start to Google
0:49.1	and all these crazy things come up, you don't have to Google today because we have got the expert, an amazing pediatrician,
0:56.1	Dr. Cara Natterson, who is actually helping schools with kids and COVID and creating health and safety
1:02.6	plans. She's also a New York Times bestselling author. Her books are on puberty and parenting,
1:06.9	and she's got this incredible newsletter. It's about science, parenting, and COVID. We're going to tell you all about that and how to subscribe later. But Kara, welcome. Thank you. This is Lisa here.
1:16.4	We're thrilled to have you. Oh, I'm thrilled to be here. All right, we've got so many questions.
1:21.4	Why don't we just get down to business? All right, vaccine is out. What do we need to know about kids and the coronavirus vaccine?
1:30.3	A few things.
1:31.3	The first is just a little bit of a reality check.
1:34.3	Vaccine is out for very few people.
1:38.3	So the very first folks to get vaccinated are healthcare workers
1:43.3	and then people who live in residential care settings.
1:48.5	I will say my own husband who works in the hospital in the ICU is getting his vaccine tomorrow.
1:56.5	So very excited. But that being said, I'm not and you're not. And it's going to be a little while
2:03.7	before the vaccine is rolled out. For our kids, it's going to be longer than a little while
2:10.2	because they're not being studied. And this is a really important thing. There are a couple of studies that have begun. Pfizer has included
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