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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today I enlisted Dr.

Kristen Oliver to talk to us about COVID-19 vaccine and kids, teenagers who have received the vaccine

and for those of you who are debating the questions that you've had and some questions

about kids who may be eligible later this year. So I wanted to address some of the things that are

top of mind, some of the fears that people have about giving this vaccine to their kids and some

of the hope for what's to come. I asked Dr. Kristen Oliver because she's a pediatrician and

public health specialist. She's an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Environmental

Medicine and Public Health at the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Oliver's scholarly

and research interests focus on vaccination. She represents the American Academy of Pediatrics

on the HPV vaccination roundtable. Dr. Oliver has extensive experience working in public health

and policy agencies and she's conducted projects with the CDC, the New York City Department of Health

and Mental Hygiene and UNICEF. Dr. Oliver is a trusted resource and I'm really happy to be able to

share her knowledge with you. If you enjoy this episode, please don't hesitate to subscribe,

rate and write a little review. I really appreciate your open minds and if you want to reach out to

me, you can DM me on at Raising Good Humans podcast on Instagram. Thank you for listening.

Let's just open with I got so many questions from parents, parents of babies who are wondering if

their breastfeeding, if their infants will get some of the immune response. I got questions about

boys and data or information that is making parents nervous about heart health. I got questions

about fertility and teenage girls. Everything that you probably have been asked about got questions

and drove. So the first thing that I wanted to ask you about are what are the myths about the

vaccine? Where do they come from? And is there anything that you could say that explains the

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