Understanding COVID’s Kid Surge (with David Kimberlin)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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With 180,000 reported COVID cases in kids last week alone, and school just getting started, Andy has a vital conversation with pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. David Kimberlin about how the Delta variant has changed everything we thought we knew about children and COVID. They cover what David's seeing on the ground in his hospital in Birmingham, the latest on vaccines for kids under 12, and how to think about the incredibly complicated issue of in-person school. Plus, what parents can do to get school districts to re-think opposition to mask requirements.

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Read David’s opinion piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the Delta varint and kids: https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-delta-covid-variant-scares-this-pediatrician/G5T6QAKPCBBMVADBS4SKEVHHJ4/
The American Academy of Pediatrics tracks COVID cases in kids here: https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/
Learn more about what the CDC has to say about MIS-C associated with COVID-19 in children: https://www.cdc.gov/mis/mis-c.html
Check out the study in Science that David mentioned about household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6546/1092
Listen to NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins discuss the timeline for a vaccine for kids under 12 on NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/back-to-school-live-updates/2021/08/24/1030611406/a-vaccine-for-young-children-is-not-likely-until-the-end-of-year-nih-director-sa
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
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0:27.0	Lemonada.
0:53.0	Welcome in the bubble. I'm your host Andy Slavitt.
0:56.0	Let me begin the episode by just updating this all on some of the news, some of the data,
1:02.0	weird things stand, and I think giving everybody a picture.
1:06.0	And then we'll get to I think a really important great interview about what's going on with COVID and kids.
1:13.0	That interview is with a terrific pediatrician, virologist, David Kimberlin.
1:21.0	He is in Alabama, he is already in the heart of it all.
1:26.0	So I think this is going to be a really illuminating episode about how things are affecting kids.
1:34.0	So let me just give a quick quick quick quick quick update before then so we can get to the interview.
1:38.0	We're now cross 200 million, number of people vaccinated in the US.
1:43.0	That is good. That is good. There's 330 million of us. We've got 200 million with some vaccines.
1:49.0	73.5% of adults have seen the first shot. 63% both shots.
1:54.0	That's progress. 61% of all of us have been vaccinated.
2:01.0	That is a good picture, but it's only the US picture.
2:05.0	And if you listened to my episode last week with Jeremy for which I hope you did,
2:09.0	I think it's one of the very, very, very best episodes.
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