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COVID-19 immunity may gather strength with more time between vaccination and infection; people who’ve had the virus benefit even from delayed vaccination.

Between children ages 5 all the way up to 17. we have a significant problem. there's a lot of holes in that story of having this population level immunity that those who aren't vaccinated can basically derive benefit from. >> do you think the parents of those children can ever be convinced or have we just reached a point this is what we're going to have to live for? >> just this week the cdc advisory meeting it was a review of the myocarditis cases in children ages 5 to 11 and it was remarkable that there are only 12 cases in nearly 9 million doses and it's much less than 1/10 of the rare case...

Been prior infections and may provide some partial protection against a surge as well. >> so, about 28 million younger kids would be eligible for a vaccine once it is approved. how quickly do we think it could be approved? a meeting at the end of the month of the advisory committee at the fda. what impact could that have on the overall pandemic? >> you mentioned the group makes up 28 million americans and kids can get infected and transmit. they may not get sick at the same rate as adults, but they do get sick. they make up part of the path to achieving that population level immunity. the octo...