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It's today explained I'm Halima Shah, filling in for Sean Ramasferam this week. We are a year

into the pandemic, but President Biden says there is hope on the horizon.

After this long hard year, that will make this Independence Day something truly special.

Where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence

from this virus. That's good news for just about everyone, especially for parents.

Dad, I don't know how to get into Google Classroom. Some kids are starting to leave the house,

with masks and social distancing and staggered school schedules. But to truly get back

to normal, we need something we don't have yet. Vaccines for kids. And approving those

isn't going to be easy, but it will be worth it because kids can get COVID-19.

So at this point in time, about 2.2 million kids in the US have contracted the disease

that we know of, which is about 11% of the total case count in the US, this is according

to the CDC. And out of that proportion, very rarely do they get very sick.

Caroline Chen is a healthcare reporter at ProPublica. She laid out the rare but real scenario

of what happens to some kids who get COVID-19.

So a lot of your listeners might have heard of what's known as multi-system inflammatory

syndrome in children, MISC, which is when basically the immune system kind of freaks out

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