BONUS - The FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids Ages 5-11—What's Next?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
After months of scrutinizing data from clinical trials, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11. Many parents and guardians are eager for their child to be first in line but what do those who might feel hesitant need to know? Dr. Gigi Gronvall, parent and immunologist at the Center for Health Security, returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about the importance of vaccinating kids, why it's not worth it to wait for the "adult" dose for kids who are 11, and why authorization took longer for children than for adults.
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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. |
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| 0:47.0 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call. In a special bonus episode, |
| 0:52.3 | Stephanie Desmond talks to frequent guest Dr. Gigi Granval of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security about some great news. |
| 0:59.7 | The FDA has granted emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 and up. |
| 1:06.5 | They discuss how critical it is to get this population vaccinated as soon as possible. Let's listen. |
| 1:13.0 | TG.G. Granvall, thanks so much for joining me. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:17.2 | The FDA has granted emergency use authorization for COVID vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. |
| 1:24.6 | This means these kids can get their shots as early as this week. So it's finally happening. |
| 1:30.1 | There must be a lot of happy parents out there. Absolutely. I've been waiting for this day for a very |
| 1:35.5 | long time. I guess the question right now is, you know, how should parents approach this? I mean, |
| 1:40.3 | I have friends who are planning to be, you know, the first people in online. Are there going to be people out there who maybe won't be? |
| 1:46.7 | Sure. So vaccination rates among teens right now, you know, 12 and up, is much lower than for adults. So we see that hesitation already in younger that parents or guardians may have for their kids in that |
| 2:03.2 | age group. And so I expect that there will be even more of that for younger kids. |
| 2:09.4 | Why is it so important for kids to be vaccinated? |
| 2:12.3 | Well, I think there's a lot of reasons why it's a good idea for our children to be vaccinated. But I think |
| 2:19.2 | people have been so used to thinking of COVID as a disease of adults, a disease of older adults, |
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