While surrounding our young unvaccinated children with others who are vaccinated is an important layer of protection, vaccination rates for children who are eligible remain sluggish. Only about 30% of the country’s 28 million children aged 5-11 are vaccinated. “We have done well so far, but we have a long way to go,” Murthy says, emphasizing that all vaccines for children have gone through rigorous clinical trials and are very effective at reducing the risk of infection. Listen as he describes how we should not tolerate the death of hundreds of children as we have seen over the past couple of years.

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