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TOM: THANK YOU. WE HOPE THIS NEXT SEGMENT WLIL BE HELPFUL TO MOMS AND DADS. NEW HAMPSHIRE KEEPS SEEING PEDIATRIC SECAS OF COVID-19, BUT BOOSTER SHOTS COULD SOON BE EXPANDED TO MORE TEENS. MONICA: WE ASKED YOU TO SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS FOR CHAD PEDIATRICIAN DR. CHARLES CAPPETTA AND HE JOINS US LIVE NOW TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIO.NS LET’S GET RIGHT TO THEM. GOOD EVENING DR. CAPPETTA. ,THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. LET’S START WITH THE FDA’S DECISION TO ALLOW PFIZER BOOSTERS FOR CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 12. THE CDC STILL NEEDS TO SIGN OFF ON THE EXPANSION BUT WHAT’S YOUR INITIAL REACTION TO THE MOVE? DR. CAPPETTA: IIF COULD JUMP TO THE MOON RIGHT NOW, I WOULD, I AM VERY EXCITED. THIS IS A GROUNDBREAKER FOR US IN PEDIATRICS. AS WE HEDAR EARLIER, THE CASES ARE GOING UP AND UP BUT NOW WITH UNPROTECTED KIDS LESSHA TN FIVE, THE BOOSTER DOSE WILL GO A LONG WAY TO FURTHER PROTECT THE PEDIATRIC GROUP 12 AND ABOVE AND I THINK IT IS GREAT. MONICA: LET’S GET TO VIEWER QUESTIONS NOW. KAITLIN HAS TWO. FIRST, IF YOUR CHI HLDAD COVID AND HAD BEEN HALF VACCINATED SHOULD YOU WAIT 90 DAYS TO GET THEIR SECOND VACCINE? DR. CAPPETTA: I PROBAYBL WOULD DEFER TO THE EXPERTS, BUT MY RECOMMENDATION IS AS SOON AS YOU CAN GET IT, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET IT, BECAUSE WE WANT TO KEEP PROTECTING TM.HE OFFICIALLY YOU ARE POSITIVE FOR CODVI FOR 90 DAYS, LIKE YOU ASKED, SO I WOULD CCKHE WITH YOUR PEDIATRIC OFFICE. THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION, BUT THE FACT THAT YOU ARE HALF VACCINEDAT JUST MEANS YOU NEED A BOOSTER, WHICH YOU ARE GETTING 85% TO 95% PROTECTION SO I THINK YOU’RE PRETTY GOOD RIG NHTOW. MONICA: KAITLIN ALSO ASKED, HAVE YOU SEEN CHILDREN EXPERIENCING LINGERING SYMPMSTO SUCH AS HEADACHES AFTER THE INITIAL ILLNS?ES DR. CAPPETTA: I HAVE, YES. AND THE LONG COVID SYNDROME IS INCREASINGLY AN ISESU WITH PEDIATRICS, INCLUDING FATIGUE, ORPO CONCENTRATION, THINGS LIKE THAT, HEADACHES. IT CAN LINGER. I THINK THE TREATMENT OF THE SYMPTOMSS I IMPORTANT, BUT ALSO CHECK WITH YOUR PEDIATRICIAN IF YOU’RE HAVING ANY CONCERNS ABOUT DIFFICULTY BATREHING OR SYMPTOMS LIKE THAT. MONICA: KAMEE ASKED, I’D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT PEDIATRICIANS RECOMMEND TO PARENTS WHO LIVE IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS THADOT NOT HAVE A UNIVERSAL MASKING POLICY, DO NOT ENFORCE DISTANCING, DO NOT HAVE PROPER VENTILATIOORN FILTRATION, OR DON’T CARRY OUT CONTACT TRACING WHEN CASESRE A FOUND. WHAT DO YOU TELL PARENTS LIKE THIS? DR. CAPPET:TA A GREAT QUESTION. HEREN I NASAHU WHERE I RESIDE, WE JUST PASSED A MANDATE AFTER THREE WEEKS OF DISCUSSION BECAUSE OF INCREASING NUMRSBE. THE NASHUA SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS WORKED HARD TO ENFORCE WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR. FOR THOSE OUTSIDEN I SCHOOLS THAT DON’T, I THINK YOU HAVE TO HAVE HONEST COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR SCHOOL BOARD, HONEST CONVERSATION WITH THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF LOOKING AFTER YOUR KIDS, AND YSA THAT SOCIAL DISTANCING, MASK WEARING, HANDWASHING, VACCINES ARE ALL GREAT, BUT IF WE DON’T HAVE THIS OPERATIONAL IN THE SCHOOLS THAT THE KIDS RESIDE IN EIGHT HOURS A DAY, WE ARE MISSING THE BOAT AND HAVE A POTENTI PALETRI DISH OF ILLNESS GOING BACKND A FORTH. MONICA: LISA ASKED, I WAS ONE OF THE EARLY ONES BOOSTED AND AM IMMUNOCOMPROMISED. MY MODERNA BOOSTER WAS SEPTEMBER .15 DO WE KNOW IF THERE ANYIS PROTECTION LEFT AFTER NEARLY FOUR MONS?TH DR. CAPPET:TA I WOULD SAY IN MOST CASES, ESPECILYAL WITH IMMUNO COMPROMISED, WE WORRY ABOUT THAT WITH BOTH KIDS AND ADULTS, SO I WILL ANSWER FROM A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE, YES YOU HAVE PROTECTION. BUT IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD YROU BOOSTER, NOW WE ARE RECOMMENDING EVEN POTENTIALLY A TRDHI BOOSTER . I WOULD SEEK THAT AS SOON YOU CAN MECO UP THERE IS STILL SOME IMMUNITY. IT IS PROBLYAB WANING. I WOULD VEGI YOU GOOD PROTECTION, SINCE YOU HAD AT. MONICA: