rafa was born at the beginning of the first lockdown, and because of the subsequent covid restrictions, young children haven t been exposed to the normal winter spread of seasonal flu and so their natural immunity hasn t developed. the uk health security agency says cases are increasing rapidly, with more than 200 under fives hospitalised. rafa has now been vaccinated, and ben and anjali are urging other parents to do the same. a lot of children being admitted with influenza, and it s really taken over this winter. i think if there s any message that we send out, it s to parents of toddlers, do go and get your children vaccinated. so, so important. it was a terrifying time, and they re extremely grateful for the care rafa received. amazing care, second to none, and we thank you
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and he had to be intubated, so he was put into a coma and put on a life support machine. and he was on that for a couple of days. his parents are both doctors, but even they were taken aback with how seriously ill rafa became. it s every parent s worst nightmare. he was in a coma with a breathing tube, connected to a life support machine just to give him a chance to recover, have treatment and improve. and unfortunately, rafa, at that time, had not yet had his flu vaccination, so i think that was, yeah, a bit of a shock for us, really. rafa was born at the beginning of the first lockdown, and because of the subsequent covid restrictions, young children haven t been exposed to the normal winter spread of seasonal flu and so their natural immunity hasn t developed. the uk health security agency says cases are increasing rapidly, with more than 200 under fives
everybody wears masks, they show their vaccine card to go into a restaurant or a bar or a concert venue and it s a very different world. the biden administration is also dealing with the challenge that parents of young children haven t been able to vaccinate their kids yet, those that are really worried. of course, 70% of kids under the age or between 5 and 12 haven t been vaccinated yet. so that also shows a share of reluctance. but i think that the biden administration is trying to find the timing to say like, okay, we can move on. and right now, the timing is a little difficult because the antiviral pills from pfizer are not yet in wide availability, because vaccines are not yet widely available for young children, because their home testing program where they re mailing tests to people s houses so they can have something on hand, not all of those have been sent out yet. to your point, vaccines are available to a lot of kids.
right? no, i am afraid not. ithink there are arguments for- right? no, i am afraid not. ithink there are arguments for refining i right? no, i am afraid not. i think. there are arguments for refining the testing procedures, there are certain cases in the hospitalisations and things like that, pcr community pcr are much more expensive, i think the problem is here, that the lateral flow devices give us a lot of freedom and to not test the probably less enabling in terms of living with the infection, those who are clinically vulnerable need to know what it is like in the community rather or not whether they are infected. and of course, the other problem here is as well, in an environment where we are having huge cost of living increases, the inequality, in terms of people have to pay for this sorts of people have to pay for this sorts of testing, is really upsetting, and i really would prefer a phased response as we are seeing in other parts of the uk. find response as we are seeing in o