aclu commented on this particular article and said there is nothing paradoxical about parents who are vaccinated themselves wanting to wait for more or longer term data from fully powered rcts or randomized controlled trials before having their kids receive a new emergency use authorization vaccine. on the contrary, it makes great sense given the extremely low risk of harm of covid-19 to 5 to 11-year-olds. as a physician, scientist and left leaning human being who believes in the social contract and i never let my kids miss a vaccine i m extremely frustrated seeing such a biased article published in jama. they are absolutely right. you know, a lot of parents will do things to themselves that they would not subject to their children to because they just worry about the long-term effects. i have a very good friend reluctant to have their daughter get the shot even though she is in her teens because long term
less and less severe and omicron is the first indication of that. ainsley: right. brian: after delta is a different challenge. steve: hope that s true. ainsley: journal of medical association why parents still hesitate to vaccinate their children against covid-19. it talks about how 2.3 million children between the ages of 5 and 11 have gotten covid. 209 of them have died. only 27% of parents with kids ages 5 to 11 are willing to immunize. 30 percent said they definitely will not vaccinate their children. one third say they will wait and see. they say why? parents are not familiar with it because because if you look at polio vaccines. if you look at mmra vaccine they were created in the 60s. then this vaccine was created a year ago. so parents are hesitant because they don t know enough about it. brian: there is nothing wrong with that there is nothing wrong with being hesitant and having questions. steve: one of the doctors at