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Today, Explained

Why little kids don’t have vaccines

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

And how the seemingly endless wait in the US is affecting their development. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Sean Rameswaram and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Here's a link if you want to contribute to Today, Explained to Kids: bit.ly/texkids Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Vaccines. Vaccine you have to get shot so you'll be feeling better. Okay, you have to stay healthy.

0:08.0

What do you do? Get healthy. You're gonna get sick.

0:12.0

Once I had to go get a flu shot and keep you from getting flu when you know baby sister's born.

0:20.0

The COVID-19 vaccine made it possible for a large part of the population to get back to something like normal.

0:27.0

But not kids under five. Late last year there was some hope. Pfizer's data showed that the immune response in kids was similar to what was seen in adults who got the vaccine.

0:38.0

It performed well in the youngest of kids. So in kids six months to two years old. They had a very good immune response.

0:44.0

Until there wasn't. But for toddlers, the older ones in this group, they didn't have the same response with a two shot regimen.

0:52.0

Why has it been so hard to get this vaccine?

0:55.0

It's today explained.

1:01.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

1:06.0

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm.

1:12.0

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because your wrap tops so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath.

1:18.0

And you get to the top and you're like, and then you can see the breath. But then your nose is still freezing to top.

1:24.0

Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

1:33.0

What the fuck?

1:35.0

You're kidding me. I'm a real idiot.

1:39.0

But look at this. You're kidding me.

1:43.0

Celebrate Italy not qualifying for the football with spicy Italian flavors.

1:48.0

The ultimate spicy sausage topped with endo. A sausage more fiery than a disappointed Italian fan.

1:55.0

Domino.

1:58.0

Subject to availability.

2:06.0

It's today explained. I'm Noel King.

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