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Morning about why its so important. >> we have kids in the hospital. theyre on ventilators. thankfully most of them recover, but theres also this long haul syndrome that happens in adults, but it also happens in kids. why put your kid through that or take the risk of that where they might have a long-term problem with their heart or their brain? >> reporter: the vaccine has an efficacy rate of 91% in children ages 5 to 11 and the main side effect is a small price to pay, stephanie. sore arms. th...

27% of parents, im among them, say im going to do that right away. 30% say lets wait and see. lets address that group right there. they have hesitancy. maybe theyve seen on the internet fertility questions or a heart condition. how do you address the legitimate questions parents might have and how do you reject the quackery? >> i think back to when my kids were born and i was researching car seats and strollers, the number of hours i spent trying to keep them safest. its the same with this vacci...

One doctor in south Overland Park, Kanas, says this is an emotional milestone in the fight against COVID-19

Effacacious itll be. children are an important part of our society. >> a poll shows only 33% of parents say theyre definitely going to have their children vaccinated. how do you make in roads there? >> yeah, thats a terrific question. you know, a lot of parents are very concerned about the safety features about the vaccine. they may have received it themselves and still have a lot of hesitancy regarding the value of the vaccine in their own children. so i think that there is a big divide. i thin...

Relatively flat in terms of growth but ticked up a bit as the vaccine mandates have gone into effect. do you believe the vaccine mandates helped push some people over the line? >> thats a great question. we hope people would opt to receive a vaccine because of choice, vaccine mandates can be very helpful in making sure those individuals who may have hesitancy or not sure they want to be vaccinated requiring a vass nation as a condition of employment or to participate in an activity may actually ...

Well before COVID-19 emerged, the World Health Organization identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to human health worldwide.

Many of your viewers are familiar with this. for a day or two you may have an ache in your arm, slight fever, headache. its lower at the lower dose. that was important to the panel as we considered this. as you know, there are those worried about the rare side effect of heart inflammation or myocarditis. there were no cases of that observed in the study, but even in terms of a less common risk of that, the lower dose was reassuring and the fact that in general, kids 5 to 11 years old in general ...

Really not true. and now that we see that natural immunity is not as good as the vaccine, i think that argues even more strongly for vaccinating the kids and for that matter the first responders. >> then theres new polling that says only about a third of parents want to vaccinate their kids right away. those who would be eligible in this 5 to 11 range. the rest either want to wait and see or dont want to do it at all. so whats your message to them? >> well, i understand the hesitancy. there this...

Our ticket to get there in the fastest way is to have all of us vaccinated, and that especially includes the kids. so i understand the hesitancy, but these vaccines are remarkably safe and very, very effective. they are a gift so we should move forward with this now if we can. >> and what are the potential side effects for those ages 5 to 11 who get vaccinated versus the effects of kids in that category getting covid? yes, there may be the antibodies, that argument. but how does a parent then we...

Information and reduce myth circulating in the community. i think thats the best that we can do. >> and so you heard there dr. gruber saying that he hopes with the cdc coming on board, if they recommend emergency use authorization, that will be another trusted agency to help those hesitant parents feel for comfortable with their kids being able to get the vaccine ages 5 to 11. it also means for the schools that you will see kids staying in school, not having to go back to remote learning, being ...