about one-third of parents who have children aged 5 to 11 say they ll vaccinate their kid as soon as it s available. one-third. 56% are wait and see, or definitely won t. the data show it s safe, but this is again, even if it gets approval, it s going to be an eua at first. and generally, we are talking about the lowest risk group. we are talking about children. so where do you fall on this, dr. gottlieb? do you think it should be mandated for children as soon as it s approved? or not? look, vaccination among kids who are eligible right now is about 50%. so we re not seeing the uptick among kids. i think pediatricians are going to have to work hard with families to try to encourage them to get children vaccinated. we re not going to see childhood vaccinations mandated until these vaccines are fully approved, and there s multiple vaccines on the market. it might not happen until fall 2021-2022 school season. cdc is going to have to take a recommendation to put this in a child immuniza
are so many other kids around them who are getting vaccinated and are now going back to normal and are going on to family trips and maybe if they are exposed to covid-19, they don t have to quarantine anymore or if there s an entire class of vaccinated kids, they don t have to wear masks or kids can now do extracurriculars. i think that once parents see the benefit of vaccination for their kids, a lot more are going to move from the wait and see to actually vaccinate their children but i also think that the parents who themselves have not gotten the vaccine are probably unlikely to consent to having their kids be vaccinated too and so i do think that there is that this is going to be a problem for the foreseeable future because a lot of people, unfortunately, do not see the covid-19 vaccine as they do the other childhood vaccinations. and that leads us to pregnant women. and so, as i m sure you know, there is all sorts of online information or basically just anecdotal stories that
to have some of these right wingers now call for the abandon men of the vaccine requirement for chickenpox and for diphtheria and hepatitis and for mumps and rubella. i think that s the next step that s going to happen. and how dangerous that is for our children. dr. anderson, i saw you nodding. i have a physical reaction to hear that childhood vaccinations are going to new battlefield in the so-called culture war. among your colleagues, and other pediatricians, are you prepared for this? i agree with senator mccaskell. i hope we can take this as far away from the political debate as possible and bring it back to the important relationship that a pediatrician has with a family. let s talk about covid. let s talk about the safety of this vaccine. let s talk about how seriously some kids across this country are being affected. even the notion of going backwards on vaccines send
they have been giving children vaccines every year they were born so they could school. this is no different. you can call me michelle or nicole or anyone you want. i wanted to raise this today, because that s true everywhere, but it is especially true in republican-led states. let me share some this reporting. mississippi, which has one of the lowest coronavirus vaccination rates in the nation, has consistently led the united states in childhood vaccinations. a point of pride for its health officials and many of its lawmakers. alabama, similar to mississippi, refuses to acknowledge philosophical moral, or ethical exemptions to mandatory childhood vaccinations. i wonder where they will put consumer right-wing disinformation in that category. and i want to play this again, chris wallace confronting governor ricketts about his state s history about not allowing any exemptions about childhood vaccines. it should be a personal
existed on the fringe, but now you have leaders talking about this stuff. yeah, that s right, stephanie. the anti-vaccine groups are more empowered than ever and now it s been full-on adopted by the extreme right, the political right. and with that brings political action, committee money, we have anti-vaccine pacs in the south, including texas. they re stronger than ever. here s what s going to happen. we have a big decline in childhood vaccinations last year because of all the social disruptions and parents weren t taking their kids to the pediatrician like they were, so there was a steep decline in measles, muscles vaccinations, hpb vaccinations and now it s starting to rebound. but my worry is it s not going to come back to baseline because there s going to be spillover of all the anti-vaccine aggression that s been going on, and so the