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Ted Cruz Feuds With Elmo Over PSA For Toddler Covid Vaccines - MSNBC Reports
Dr. Kavita Patel joins Andrea Mitchell to share data and emphasize the need for children under five to be vaccinated against Covid-19, after Senator Ted Cruz took to Twitter criticizing a Sesame Street PSA in which Elmo, who has been three and a half years-old since 1984, got his first Covid shot. “We've had over 400 deaths in the under five age group eligible for a vaccine, and it's one of the top 10 leading causes of death in that age group,” says Patel. “The facts do support not only a vaccine but having your children protected no matter whether they were previously infected or not infected.”
This anti-vaccine movement towards vaccines to protect children is now spreading to other standard vaccines which have been in use for decades. Aired on 07/01/2022.
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Can't someone shut him up? 
After scotus's anti-bortion war on women, maybe this will motivate parents to vax their kids! 
But the anti-vaxx movement is spreading against the standard vaccines that have protected all of us, starting as young children, for generations! What deadly illness/virus/disease could make a comeback??? 
Young folks were not vaxed for polio & smallpox!
Read dr. Eric Ding. News sure isn't reporting it.
Just saw article that July 4th holiday traffic airports, nationwide, larger that 2019, per TSA.
