WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:01:51.9770000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.9708207 00:00:02.290 --> 00:00:04.420 COVID-19 cases increase in our state, NOTE Confidence: 0.9708207 00:00:04.420 --> 00:00:07.260 parents are taking a harder look at their NOTE Confidence: 0.9708207 00:00:07.260 --> 00:00:09.745 kids health and the upcoming school year. NOTE Confidence: 0.9708207 00:00:09.750 --> 00:00:11.922 They're asking THV 11 some serious NOTE Confidence: 0.9708207 00:00:11.922 --> 00:00:13.768 questions and tonight THV 11 NOTE Confidence: 0.9708207 00:00:13.768 --> 00:00:15.428 Ian Russell finds the answers. NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:18.850 --> 00:00:20.080 Questions about the vaccine seemed NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:21.820 to be more and more prevalent, NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:21.820 --> 00:00:23.440 especially when it comes to kids. NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:25.218 We asked you Monday night if there NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:25.218 --> 00:00:26.876 was anything or anyone that would NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:26.876 --> 00:00:28.568 convince you to get the vaccine. NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:28.570 --> 00:00:30.190 Many of you at home responded, NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:30.190 --> 00:00:31.540 but there were six common NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:31.540 --> 00:00:32.620 questions that we got. NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:32.620 --> 00:00:33.700 We took those questions NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:34.780 to Doctor Chad Rogers, NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:34.780 --> 00:00:36.400 a partner at Little Rock pediatric. NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:37.480 Let's start broad. Is NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:39.384 the vaccine. Say I have good confidence NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:39.384 --> 00:00:41.304 in the vaccine that that when you NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:41.304 --> 00:00:42.876 look at adults compared to teens, NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:44.374 it's all been very similar and NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:44.374 --> 00:00:46.390 it's a very safe vaccine. We know NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:46.390 --> 00:00:47.740 that side effects like muscle NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:49.126 soreness and fatigue, or common. NOTE Confidence: 0.9884038 00:00:49.126 --> 00:00:51.142 What about the more rare side effects? NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:00:51.150 --> 00:00:52.914 All those kids who develop that side NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:00:52.914 --> 00:00:54.846 effect of sort of the heart inflammation NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:00:54.846 --> 00:00:56.866 they had been followed and they have NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:00:56.866 --> 00:00:58.516 been traced and they all resolved. NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:00.050 And they're all doing well so NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:00.050 --> 00:01:01.799 no one died from the vaccine. NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:03.438 Nobody had some long term complications. NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:05.066 School is right around the corner. NOTE Confidence: 0.98851216 00:01:05.070 --> 00:01:07.016 Is it safe for kids who are NOTE Confidence: 0.98851216 00:01:07.016 --> 00:01:08.349 not vaccinated to go yes, NOTE Confidence: 0.98851216 00:01:08.350 --> 00:01:09.870 but Doctor Roger says parents NOTE Confidence: 0.98851216 00:01:09.870 --> 00:01:11.390 should consider masks for kids NOTE Confidence: 0.98851216 00:01:11.450 --> 00:01:12.716 who are old enough to get NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:14.232 vaccinated and also for people who NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:14.232 --> 00:01:16.455 work in the school who may have not NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:16.455 --> 00:01:17.910 gotten vaccinated for various reasons. NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:17.910 --> 00:01:19.370 Maybe for health reasons maybe. NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:19.370 --> 00:01:20.189 For other reasons, NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:20.189 --> 00:01:21.554 but definitely would encourage them NOTE Confidence: 0.988512159999999 00:01:21.554 --> 00:01:23.570 to get that vaccine. Some of you NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:23.570 --> 00:01:24.970 felt the vaccine was rushed NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:24.970 --> 00:01:26.370 and not tested enough, and NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:27.210 it's been used. NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:27.210 --> 00:01:28.890 It's been proven to be safe. NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:28.890 --> 00:01:30.570 The technology has been around for NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:30.570 --> 00:01:32.810 a while and it has been shown to NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:32.810 --> 00:01:33.930 be extremely effective. Another NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:33.930 --> 00:01:35.604 question that was pretty common that NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:35.604 --> 00:01:37.848 we heard was if you get the vaccine, NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:37.850 --> 00:01:39.810 will it make your allergy symptoms worse? NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:39.810 --> 00:01:40.930 Doctor Roger says no, NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:40.930 --> 00:01:42.330 that's not going to happen, NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:43.720 but just having generally like NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:43.720 --> 00:01:45.426 allergies or asthma or some other NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:45.426 --> 00:01:47.010 health condition should not make you NOTE Confidence: 0.9864582 00:01:47.010 --> 00:01:49.050 less safe to get the vaccine reporting NOTE Confidence: 0.929055 00:01:49.050 --> 00:01:51.975 in. Little Rock, I mean Russell THV 11 news.