CNN’s Wen: Now that More Kids Are Getting Hospitalized, the Urgency to Get Vaccines to Children Is Extraordinary

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WEN: “The urgency to get the vaccines for younger children is quite extraordinary now. I mean, right now we're entering a period that is arguably the most dangerous time for children during the entire pandemic, because we have the Delta variant, we have 93,000 children who are getting — who got infected in the last week, more than 200 kids are getting hospitalized every day, and now kids are going back to school. People are not using the same precautions as they were before. And so I think we need to raise the level of urgency and to really ask the question, how much data are we looking for? I mean, how many children need to be in these studies? What is the level of safety and the time period that we need? Definitely, we want to make sure that these vaccines are safe and effective. Of course, we don't want any corners to be cut, but we also need these vaccines pretty urgently, too."