Getting Kids Vaccinated (with Richard Besser)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Andy begins with the big news: a vaccine for kids seems imminent. He breaks down the FDA vaccine advisory committee’s vote recommending authorization of the Pfizer vaccine, and outlines the next steps to get shots for 5-11 year-olds as soon as possible. Then, he calls up Dr. Richard Besser, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They discuss what our response to COVID could mean for future public health crises and how we come back from the entrenched, tribalistic camps we find ourselves in today. Plus, the lessons we should be taking away from the death of General Colin Powell.

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Learn more about the next steps for the vaccine for kids: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-panel-greenlights-vaccines-kids-kicking-off-authorization/story?id=80778124
Here’s more from Rich on the vaccine for kids: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-kids-pediatrician-questions-answers/
Read more on Colin Powell, and how to think about his death and breakthrough infections in people who are immunocompromised: https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/colin-powell-vaccine-breakthrough-infection-concern.html
Learn more about Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson’s change of heart on mask mandates: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/04/1024939859/arkansas-governor-reverse-law-let-schools-require-masks
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	Mental health challenges are affecting people in the US at high levels, particularly among
0:05.0	adolescents.
0:06.0	At CVS Health, mental health is just as important as physical health.
0:11.0	That's whether making mental, well-being services more accessible, less complicated, more
0:15.4	convenient, and more inviting.
0:18.0	CVS Health is doing this by creating new programs, encouraging care to discussions, and providing
0:23.2	increased access to digital tools and telehealth services.
0:27.0	CVS Health is there to help.
0:31.0	Learn more at CVS Health.com.
0:34.0	Lemonade.
0:38.0	Or the record based on the totality of scientific evidence available.
0:43.0	Do the benefits of the Pfizer, biotech, COVID-19 vaccine when administered as a two-dose
0:51.0	series, 10 micrograms each dose, reweat support, outweigh its risk for youths in children,
0:59.0	5 to 11 years of age.
1:03.0	Welcome to the bubble.
1:21.8	This is your host, Andy Slavitt.
1:24.0	With the message you just heard, we are now rolling towards giving vaccines to our young
1:30.8	people, 5 to 11-year-olds, are now poised to get vaccines almost a year from Joe Biden's
1:37.8	election.
1:38.8	Almost a year from Election Day.
1:40.6	We will now be in that vaccine available for Pfizer all the way down to age 5, all the
1:48.2	way up to age 113.
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