430 - How to Talk to Parents About COVID-19 Vaccines For Kids
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Although Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for kids ages 5-11 back in November, uptake has been markedly slower than other age groups. Social and behavioral scientist Dr. Rupali Limaye talks with Stephanie Desmon about why vaccination rates are lagging among kids, and a new free course that trains people to be "vaccine ambassadors" and have productive conversations to help promote vaccine acceptance in their communities. Learn more about the course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/covid-vaccine-ambassador
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhut.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.6 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to |
| 0:47.7 | Rupali Lemay, an expert in vaccine hesitancy at Johns Hopkins. As COVID vaccination rates |
| 0:53.9 | for children ages 5 to 11 lag, |
| 0:56.7 | they discuss how to empower parents to become vaccine ambassadors and help their peers combat |
| 1:01.9 | misinformation and choose vaccination. Let's listen. |
| 1:07.1 | Rupali Lameh, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:11.6 | So today I'd like to talk to you about this problem we're seeing, which is that children |
| 1:17.6 | ages 5 to 11 are just not getting vaccinated for COVID at the same rate as other age groups. |
| 1:23.6 | And sort of how can we fix that problem? |
| 1:26.6 | I guess I want to start with why is the vaccination rate so low? |
| 1:30.3 | It's a really good question. |
| 1:32.3 | And I think the biggest reason why is because the consistent message throughout this pandemic has been that the virus is viled for children, right? |
| 1:39.3 | That is really what we've heard. |
| 1:40.3 | As a parent with two kids under the age of 12, that's what I think all of my other |
| 1:44.9 | parent friends have heard. But the biggest issue that we are seeing, especially with this |
| 1:49.4 | newest variant, is that kids are getting hospitalized. We are seeing pediatric hospitalization go up, |
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