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just the immediate, you know, distribution. like is this already present geographically across the country? can people expect to go to their local pharmacy or pediatrician and get the shot? well, yes, very, very soon, chris. the preparation for this in anticipation of the favorable response of the regulatory agency, the fda. and then as you mentioned last night when the advisory committee made the recommendation by unanimous vote to make this vaccine available to children 5 to 11, we were preparing for this for quite a while to the point where by the time we get just a few days at november 8th we ll be at full speed. so it s inching up to that but clearly by the time we get into next week, we ll have all systems go. namely have the product available appropriately in pharmacies, in pediatric
into next, week we are going to have all systems go. mainly, have the product available, appropriately, in pharmacies, in pediatric offices, in children hospitals, and in places of distribution for the children. so we hope to really be able to put a full court press on this and hopefully get as many of these children vaccinated as possible. so what i m hearing from you, i just want to be crystal clear on. this right now, if you re for adult doses in the u.s., it is very easy to find vaccination. exactly. almost anywhere. you could walk in, it s not like we re in the battle days of reloading a website. what i m hearing from you, know we got from the, day you re hoping that we are in roughly a similar situation of, if you want to take your kid to go get vaccinated, you can do it? that is precisely the case. we are aiming at november 8th for full speed. gotcha. i am not a parent who is reluctant, hesitant, worried
phone and you know they will call you back. there is nothing like the comfort of a trusted pediatrician. tell me about the importance of keeping that line, that trust, that bond free from all the political noise that has polluted the covid conversation for nearly two years. right. so, as you can imagine, virtually all pediatricians that i know of and that have been reporting up to the american actually of pediatrics are completely supportive of getting this vaccine. the other things that s interesting about all of this is as opposed to the adult vaccine campaign, many will be vaccinated a the clinics and the pediatric offices they attend and so on. so the whole relationship around the vaccine and the person to be answering questions about it will be your long-time trusted pediatrician. where you will go to he or she and be able to talk about what s
same. when you see it as a side effect from a vaccine, it is usually mild heart inflammation that goes away on its own, usually when i few weeks. when you get myocarditis from a virus such as covid-19, it is much more severe. it can cause permanent heart issues, death. it can stick around and be long lasting in your body and not go away like the mild cases with he see with the vaccine. such a good point. the last thing was dosing errors. so the fda has taken this into account. pfizer has made the vials for the pediatrics vaccine which is a lower dose. it is a third of the dose, 10 micrograms. it is very clear which dose is for the kids. in pediatric offices, this is what we do. we give vaccines to kids all day long. we have many checks and balances where the nurses check the