What Next TBD: Where Are The Little Kids' Vaccines?

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today on What Next TBD: What is going on with little kids' vaccines? Why don’t they seem to be a priority for the government or the pharmaceutical companies, while parents are stressed to a breaking point? We discuss with Meg Tirrell, health and science correspondent for CNBC, and co-host of the Readout Loud podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.6	Late last week, I was going through Twitter looking for any crumbs of information I could find
0:39.1	on when my kid might be able to get a COVID vaccine.
0:42.8	He's 18 months old.
0:44.3	He was born in the pandemic.
0:46.1	It's been his entire life, even though he's totally unaware of it.
0:51.6	We don't let him do much.
0:53.6	With Omicron all around us and pediatric hospitalizations increasing, I've honestly gotten more and more anxious.
1:00.8	Both that he'll get sick and that our finely tuned balance of child care and work will come crashing down.
1:09.3	Back in November, kids who were 5 to 11 became eligible for a COVID shot.
1:14.2	Today is a monumental day in the course of this pandemic and one that many of us have been very eager to be.
1:22.0	It seemed like maybe the littlest kids would be next soon, and I got my hopes up.
1:26.9	But then November, turned into December,
1:29.6	and then January, which is how I found myself searching Twitter Friday night. Another parent
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