Vivek Murthy: Get Our Kids 5 and Above Vaccinated, It Is More Critical Than Ever

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MURTHY: “I would say at this point it is still not clear that kids are more susceptible to Omicron compared to adults. But we do know that in many parts of the world, that kids have had a lower vaccination rate, which may be one of the operative elements here that's driving kids to not only get sick, but to have some kids end up in the hospital. It's why I think we even have more work to do here to get more children vaccinated. We have more than 200 million people vaccinated, fully vaccinated in our country, millions who are boosted, but kids had vaccines authorized later for them because the studies took longer to do and that was important to do thoroughly, but now we have to really put our foot on the accelerator, get our kids who are five and above vaccinated. It's more critical than ever.”