What About Vaccinating Kids?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

While three Covid-19 vaccines are now available for adults in the U.S., none have been approved yet for kids under 16. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with pediatrician and former acting director of the CDC, Dr. Richard Besser, about what this means for parents and their kids. Where do Covid-19 trials in children stand? What role do children play in herd immunity? And when will your child be able to get a vaccine? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Naomi, did you know that you're going to be a hero today?
0:06.0	Hero of the day.
0:08.0	I have so many.
0:09.0	I've been to help everybody.
0:10.0	I'm a hero.
0:11.0	Okay.
0:12.0	That's a health care worker at Cincinnati Children's Hospital speaking with seven year old Naomi.
0:18.0	She's one of thousands of children now enrolled in a COVID-19 vaccine trial for kids.
0:23.0	One can eat.
0:24.0	Three, three, three.
0:25.0	Okay.
0:27.0	See?
0:28.0	I'll do it.
0:29.0	There we go.
0:30.0	See?
0:31.0	Good way to go.
0:32.0	Naomi received her first vaccine dose at the end of March as part of a Pfizer trial for children.
0:39.0	Even though several COVID-19 vaccines have received emergency use authorization for adults,
0:44.0	the Moderna and the Johnson and Johnson vaccines are only available to Americans age 18 and
0:49.0	up, and for the Pfizer vaccine, 16 and up.
0:53.0	Naomi's participation in this trial is going to help pharmaceutical companies determine how
0:58.4	much protection the vaccines offered to kids under 16 and also what the right dose might
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