342 - COVID-19 Vaccines and Children
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Youths 12 and older have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines since March, but clinical trials are still ongoing for kids under 12. Dr. Kawsar Talaat, who led one of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine trials in adults, and Dr. Odis Johnson, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about whether schools may require vaccines, the ethics of immunizing children when so many high-risk adults around the world don't have access to shots, risk factors for serious disease among children, and what is known currently about vaccine hesitancy among parents.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:50.6 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to two Johns Hopkins experts, vaccine researcher Kouser Talat and |
| 0:56.6 | education professor Otis Johnson Jr. about when the COVID-19 vaccine will be available for younger |
| 1:02.5 | children and whether it should be mandatory for kids in order to attend school. Let's listen. |
| 1:09.5 | Otis Johnson Jr. and Kauser T'Lat, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:15.1 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:16.4 | So I want to start with you, Kauser. |
| 1:18.4 | We're going to talk today about COVID vaccine and children. |
| 1:22.3 | And we've had the vaccine for kids 12 and over since early March. |
| 1:30.2 | And my question is, it's going well. |
| 1:37.1 | Yes. I think. Yeah, no, I think it's going great. And I think that there's hundreds of thousands, |
| 1:49.7 | if not millions of kids 12 to 17, that have now been vaccinated, which is fantastic. Many of them are now fully vaccinated, even, you know, just five weeks after the emergency youth authorization. |
| 1:51.3 | And that gives them some security in terms of their ability, their activities for |
| 1:55.8 | the summer, whether it's summer jobs or camps or other activities. |
| 1:59.8 | They know that they're protected and that they're not there, their risk of bringing |
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