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🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series. |
0:12.5 | This is your FastTrack update on the COVID pandemic. |
0:15.4 | We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus |
0:19.9 | and the disease. |
0:21.5 | We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means. |
0:25.2 | I'm Tony Lewis. |
0:26.6 | I'm Josh Fishman. |
0:28.1 | We're a scientific American senior health editors. |
0:31.2 | This is our Back to School special episode, Part 2. |
0:34.8 | We'll talk about why so few young children have gotten their COVID vaccines. |
0:39.4 | And how long we should really be isolating when we get sick? |
0:45.1 | Many kids are back in or heading back to school and preschool right now. |
0:49.8 | We know that means the risk of spreading COVID will increase, yet very few young children |
0:55.0 | have gotten the vaccine. |
0:56.5 | That's right. |
0:58.0 | COVID vaccines have been available for all the ages since mid-June, but only about a third |
1:02.5 | of children ages 5 through 11 are fully vaccinated. |
1:06.0 | And among kids under 5, the numbers are even lower, just a couple percent. |
1:10.8 | That's really low. |
1:12.3 | Why is it so low? |
1:13.6 | Well, there are lots of reasons. |
1:15.3 | The Kaiser Family Foundation pulled the parents of young children about why they chose not |
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