Children's Health

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Global wishes for 2022: a gift box for everyone, greater girl power, vertical gardens

9:02pm January 07, 2022

We asked global thinkers like Malala, doctors dealing with the pandemic, educators and more — if you were in charge of the world, what would you like to see happen this year.

In classrooms or online, parents grapple with omicron school 'chaos'

5:14pm January 07, 2022

Omicron is upending schools all across the country. Parents and families are navigating last-minute virtual learning, changing risk assessments and their own positive COVID tests.

A doctor loads a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe, on Dec. 2, 2021, at a mobile vaccination clinic in Worcester, Mass.

CDC recommends Pfizer COVID booster for kids as young as 12

10:13pm January 05, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The new recommendation for adolescents age 12-17 came hours after a panel of CDC advisers voted in favor of it. The boosters should be given five months after initial immunization.

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona discusses the push to keep schools open

5:07pm January 05, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the omicron surge and the administration's push to keep schools open.

Advisers to the CDC say kids as young as 12 should get COVID booster shots

5:07pm January 05, 2022

by Pien Huang

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say kids as young as 12 should get booster shots. This endorsement clears the way for the CDC to approve boosters for kids between 12 and 15.

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The number of kids being admitted to hospitals for COVID continues to rise

5:04pm January 04, 2022

by Allison Aubrey

COVID hospitalizations among children have increased 97% over the last week to 575 admissions per day. Infectious disease experts talk about treating children with omicron and who is most at-risk.

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Some corporations are opening up their doors to providing more support for child care.

Child care is getting more support from some private companies

8:00am January 04, 2022

by Camila Beiner

Some corporations are trying harder to help provide child care for families.

How schools are preparing to reopen as COVID-19 rages on

8:06am January 01, 2022

by David Gura

David Gura speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin about whether schools across the country are planning to continue in-person or go remote at the end of their holiday breaks.

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Health & Safety

What the current COVID-19 surge is doing to children

5:05am December 31, 2021

The latest COVID-19 surge is putting kids in the hospital in record numbers. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Dr. Claudia Hoyen, an expert in pediatric infection in Cleveland, Ohio.

Yaritza Martinez developed a Zika virus infection in 2016 when she was pregnant with her son Yariel, who is now 5 years old. Yariel is enrolled in a long-term study following a group of babies in the U.S. and in Colombia to see how they have been developi

Health & Safety

5 years later, researchers assess how children exposed to Zika are developing

6:10pm December 27, 2021

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Subtle developmental differences in children whose brains seemed normal at birth underscore the need to follow children long term — a lesson that may be key for babies exposed to COVID-19.

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