Pediatric Vaccine Trials Continue Apace, But Young Kids Will Have to Wait

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In California, vaccine eligibility now extends to those 65 and over, health care providers, long term care residents and workers in sectors like agriculture and childcare. And officials plan to expand eligibility to more Californians in the coming weeks. But for children under 16, for whom no vaccine has yet been authorized, the wait for a shot will likely extend until at least the end of the year. We’ll talk about the status of national pediatric vaccine trials and what health officials need to greenlight a vaccine for kids. We’ll also talk about new CDC guidance for those who are fully vaccinated Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.8	Coming up on forum, doctors and researchers say that vaccinating children will be crucial for protecting the broader population.
1:06.9	But no vaccines have been authorized for kids yet.
1:09.9	Drug makers only recently began trials for 12- to 15-year-olds, making the weight for a shot likely to extend to at least the end of the year.
1:17.9	We'll talk with Dr. Paul Offutt, a vaccine researcher and pediatrician, about what that means for returning to pre-2020 routines.
1:25.2	And we'll get his thoughts on the latest CDC guidance for adults who are fully vaccinated.
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1:49.6	The first major sign that vaccines are having tangible effects came yesterday when the Centers
1:54.8	for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated people can socialize,
2:00.2	maskless, and indoors with unvaccinated healthy people.
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