Everything You Need to Know About Vaccinating Your Kids (with Pediatrician Paul Offit)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Andy calls up pediatrician and vaccinologist Dr. Paul Offit, who just voted to recommend that the FDA approve Pfizer's vaccine for 5-11 year olds. They discuss the vaccine advisory committee's deliberations, what the data show about side effects like myocarditis, how to think about the decision from a parent's perspective, and whether or not schools should require that eligible kids be vaccinated against COVID-19. Plus, Andy breaks down what you need to know about COP26, the global climate summit that is now underway in Glasgow.
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Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- Keep track of what’s happening at COP26 in Glasgow: https://ukcop26.org/
- Learn more about Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now, and pre-order your copy, here: https://speedandscale.com/
- Check out this timeline for the kids COVID vaccine authorization: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/28/1050189443/heres-the-timeline-for-the-kids-covid-vaccine-authorization
- Listen to Paul talk more about Philadelphia’s 1991 measles vaccine mandate: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/14/713195751/how-philadelphia-mandated-vaccinations-in-1991
- Here’s the Kaiser Family Foundation survey looking at parents’ attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccinations for children: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-october-2021/
- Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
- Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165
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| 0:00.0 | It's CVS Health, they know the women's physical, mental, and sexual health matters. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why they're offering new women's health services available nationwide seven days a week. |
| 0:09.0 | From heart health, blood pressure, and cholesterol screenings available at miniclinic locations, |
| 0:14.0 | to virtual birth control consultations and visits with a board certified provider, |
| 0:18.0 | women's health is it an afterthought. It matters. |
| 0:21.0 | It's CVS Health. Health here happens together. Learn more at CVSHealth.com. |
| 0:27.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:30.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the bubble. This is Andy Slavitt your host. Here in Philadelphia with Lana, |
| 0:58.0 | we are visiting one Zach Slavitt this weekend. Some of you who listen to the first season of In the Bubble will remember that Zach was my sidekick on the show. |
| 1:09.0 | He's my 19 year old son and he made 15 minutes first mom and me yesterday before he went out to have a party. |
| 1:16.0 | And we loved every one of those minutes. We will see him more today. He's a wonderful kid. |
| 1:21.0 | But it is great to see the progress that allows us all to go travel a little bit and see our family safely. |
| 1:28.0 | Of course, fully vaccinated, boosted if appropriate, masked. |
| 1:32.0 | And then here on campus, unlike last year, it seems like there's very, very little COVID, at least in Philadelphia. |
| 1:39.0 | So it really is good to see the progress. Having said that, I'm sitting in a hotel room about to interview the mayor of Chicago, |
| 1:47.0 | and the Lori Lightfoot for the show coming up on Wednesday. So you've got reason to listen to this show, which is going to be great. |
| 1:54.0 | And then Wednesday show, which I'm very excited about. I'll come back to that in a minute. |
| 1:59.0 | Let's going on around. Let's just do a quick shake and beg of what's going around. |
| 2:04.0 | First of all, speaking of Philadelphia, we are making a gift this week from the show, from you, our listeners, to the black doctors, COVID-19 consortium, |
| 2:15.0 | of $8,753. This is a group that went out on their own and built mobile COVID testing and vaccine operations to vaccinate people with no barriers around Philadelphia. |
| 2:30.0 | We learned about them. We found out about them. And this is a surprise gift to them. And as a reminder, to people listening to the show, |
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