Most Kids Still Can't Get The Vaccine. They Represent 18% Of New Cases.

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Hospitals across the country are nearing capacity as they struggle to treat unvaccinated Americans. Children represent eighteen percent of all new cases, as parents and pediatricians push to get those under twelve access to the vaccine as schools begin to reopen.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and health correspondent Allison Aubrey.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rebecca and Marlow calling from New Jersey.
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0:26.4	The party. The what? The party.
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0:33.4	Maybe they could help me settle with the bait in my house about whether or not it's okay to have a used...
0:41.4	...potty potty training.
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0:48.2	So I know people buy them. So there you go.
0:51.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:53.8	Ooh, there could be a pun there, but I'm not going to do it.
0:56.0	I'm Scott DeTro, I cover the White House.
0:58.5	I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.
1:00.5	And we have Health Correspondent, Alison Aubrey here, Alison.
1:04.8	It's always good to have you on the podcast, but it also usually means we are talking about depressing COVID trends.
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