342 - COVID-19 Vaccines and Children

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Youths 12 and older have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines since March, but clinical trials are still ongoing for kids under 12.</span> <strong>Dr. Kawsar Talaat</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who led one of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trials in adults, and</span> <strong>Dr. Odis Johnson</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, return to the podcast to talk with</span> <strong>Stephanie Desmon</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">about whether schools may require vaccines, the ethics of immunizing children when so many high-risk adults around the world don’t have access to shots, risk factors for serious disease among children, and what is known currently about vaccine hesitancy among parents.</span></p>