so in south africa, lots of reinfections. in fact i just got a text message from a colleague, what should they do? the answer is, get vaccinated. when i m asked about this omicron wave, the answer is get vaccinated, meaning third vaccination, and get vaccinated. vaccinate your kids, because we re seeing a lot of pediatric hospitalizations in south africa and in the uk, and we re thinking we re going to see a lot of pediatric hospitalizations here in the united states if your kids are unvaccinated. i want to ask you about the outbreaks we re seeing in the professional sports world. the nfl has more than 94% vaccinate rate among its players in the nba around 96% of players are vaccinated, both rates much higher than the general public.
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they want to make sure they understand the risk benefits. parents have the simple question, is the benefit of giving this vaccine reducing the long-term side effects, reducing the risk of hospitalization worth whatever risk we re taking? and there are very rare side effects. so it s important that parents understand the full picture, that they get to ask those questions. i m okay with the fact that only a third of the people have gotten those questions answered so far. what i do hope is that the other two-thirds seeks answers to those questions from reliable places. pediatricians are used to answering those types of questions, giving those vaccines out, and i think they ll find that the evidence suggests that under almost every circumstance, it makes sense to vaccinate their kids. let me get your reaction to this. it s in massachusetts. hopkinton high school is going to drop their mask mandate for a three-week trial period for vaccinated students and staff. they re able to do it beca
there has been a lot of data out there with the mixes and matching. and by that we mean getting a different vaccine than you initially got when you got your full dosing. and some of the information is saying yeah, it might be something that helps out. others is saying we don t know if we need mixing and matching. it will be interesting to see what they come down with. i think they say if you get the vaccine, make sure you get a booster when it is time and it might not matter which booster at that point, but we ll have to wait and see what they decide on tomorrow. doctor, with the president coming out today, and the low vaccinate rate of our country compared to other european countries, what more can be done to get people who may be