We Need to Vaccinate Kids

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Children may have been largely spared the worst of COVID-19, but many kids have still gotten seriously ill and died. Despite promising news this week, most likely won’t have access to the vaccines for months. So as adults get vaccinated, how high are the stakes for kids? And how high are the stakes for everyone waiting on herd immunity? Jim and Maeve ask Dr. Jill Foster, a professor and pediatric-infectious-disease specialist at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Also, with a pediatrician on the show, they take the opportunity to ask a few listener questions from parents. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at theatlantic.com/supportus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Jim. Hi, Mave. I hope you're doing okay over there. I'm
0:06.7	Mave. I hope you're doing okay over there. I'm okay. How are you? I'm rattled.
0:12.2	Oh no. I just, um... How are you? I'm rattled.
0:13.2	Oh no.
0:14.0	I just was outside putting the hens down to their hen run, including you know,
0:20.5	your...
0:21.5	Including James Hamble and the hen then and there's a bloody dead
0:24.2	blackbird right in front of our porch and I was... This is social distance
0:29.8	the Atlantic's podcast about the pandemic. I'm Jim Hamblin, a doctor and a staff writer with the Atlantic.
0:35.4	And I'm Maeve Higgins, a comedian and a writer currently kind of worried about something that's
0:41.4	outside my home. Is that okay to put that in because it's very much on my mind?
0:45.6	Yeah, no, I mean I feel like it's central to your identity at this point. Sorry, there's a dead crow.
0:51.1	A little blackbird I think, because it has an orange beak and the little legs so.
0:56.1	Oh, that's very sad.
0:58.1	I know and it's also so sinister because I didn't have time to look it up, but I think it means there's going to be a murder.
1:06.5	What? There's some symbol.
1:09.2	Why do you?
1:10.2	I don't know.
1:11.2	If there's a deadbird like right at your front door, it means something is going to happen.
1:17.4	And I'm not superstitious.
1:18.8	This is just, you know.
1:20.4	That's just a basic fact. Yeah, and I'm so freaked out.
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