475 - COVID-19 Vaccines For Kids 5 and Under
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Many parents of kids ages 5 and under have been anxiously awaiting FDA authorization for vaccines for the youngest age group. Dr. Ruth Karron, one of the world's leading experts in the development of children's vaccines, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about why it's taken so long to authorize vaccines for young children, the evidence behind the safety and efficacy of vaccinating this age group, and what's likely to happen in the next few weeks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.1 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues. |
| 0:25.4 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:31.0 | That's public health question at jhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:37.8 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:41.5 | Today, the topic is COVID vaccines for children. |
| 0:45.1 | Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks with Johns Hopkins Professor Ruth Karen, one of the world's leading |
| 0:50.5 | experts in the development of children's vaccines. |
| 0:53.4 | They discuss why it's taken so long to |
| 0:55.5 | authorize vaccines for young children and what's likely to happen in the next few weeks. They also |
| 1:00.6 | review the evidence on vaccinating children against COVID in the first place. Let's listen. |
| 1:06.5 | Dr. Ruth Karen, thank you so much for joining me on public health on call for a topic |
| 1:11.3 | that is near and dear to both of our hearts. |
| 1:15.1 | Childhood vaccination for COVID-19. |
| 1:17.1 | Thanks so much, Josh. |
| 1:18.7 | It's really good to be with you. |
| 1:20.4 | So let's start with a basic question. |
| 1:22.9 | We are now two years into the pandemic and well over a year after vaccines for adults became available, |
| 1:29.8 | and there still aren't vaccines for the youngest children. Why has it taken so long? |
| 1:34.6 | Well, I think there are a couple of reasons. The first is that when we started in 2020 |
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