I am Julie Hamill. I'm a lawyer out in greater Los Angeles in a little town called Rancho,

Palace Verde's. I've got three little kids. My oldest is seven. Middle is five and the youngest is two.

And are you yourself vaccinated against COVID-19? I am. And so tell me how you're thinking about

your kids. Well, obviously it's been a very heated public discussion. And I will be honest,

I'm scared to talk to you this morning because I am frightened of being maligned as some sort of crazy

person or, you know, QAnon, anti-vaxxer. Julie says she's not a Republican, not a Democrat,

so she's been following her pediatrician's advice throughout the pandemic.

She explained to me that from a public health perspective, we have to say we being her practice,

everyone should get the vaccine. But then she said, you know, individually you should do your own

risk analysis. And the things that she asked where, you know, does your kid have respiratory problems,

is your child obese? These children should absolutely get vaccinated. Do you live with the high risk

grandparent or their other risk factors in your life? You know, then you may want to strongly consider

it, but it's completely reasonable at this point not to get your kids vaccinated. To be clear,

that is not what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends. But it is how a decent number of

parents are thinking. Pulling from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that one third of American

parents are excited for their kids to get the shot. Another third don't want or plan to vaccinate

their kids against COVID. And then there's the last third, an important one. Like Julie,

they want to wait and see how things play out. Just out of curiosity, do your kids have the standard

childhood vaccines? Yes. Why do you think this one is different or why does it feel different to you?

Well, it's really interesting question. Because I never thought about vaccines before. I just

did whatever the doctor recommended. I never thought twice about it. And this time it's different

because I've watched how politically charged the discussion around them has become and how

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