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special correspondent. thank you for being here. >> i'm happy to be here, i'm also a pediatrician and a parent. this topic is near and dear to me. >> you are a pediatrician and this topic is part of your expertise. we talk so much about the covid-19 vaccine but there are a lot of other important vaccinations out there. let's discuss those, and the necessary vaccines kids need to get. >> if you look at california, and every state has different vaccination requirements, if we just look at california and the vaccines required to enter kindergarten, you have polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, pumps, hepatitis, there are nine. those are very very important

vaccines. to prevent some very serious illnesses that we used to see kids get sick or die from before we had vaccines, which is why we are so passionate about talking to parents and explaining the importance. a lot of parents have questions about vaccines, they will question why they are important. the reason they're not familiar with these diseases is because vaccines did such a good job of getting them out of our communities. most parents have not seen a case of diphtheria or polio or rubella in the developed world, and we want to keep it that way. karina: the statistics of one in eight, does that surprise you, and how do you think we got to that point? >> i haven't had a chance to see that specific data but i did see the headline. the one thing we do know is that childhood vaccines have lagged during the pandemic. some of this is because offices were closed, schools were close, and parents were afraid to go

out in 2020 and 2021. we have seen this decline even in a small percentage. last year there was a report that 94% of kids had their childhood vaccines on entering kindergarten. some may say this still good at 94%, but that also before the 95% threshold. that 1% difference equates to about 35,000 kids entering kindergarten who are not fully vaccinated. we saw another report of about 400,000 less kids entering kindergarten in the 2020-2020 one school year. the one thing i want to make sure we don't do is blame parents and alienate them. we want to maintain a good dialogue to make sure every child is getting vaccines and every parents questions and concerns are getting addressed. karina: a simple way to remember

to get those vaccinations on when and how and all of that would be to see the doctor for a checkup. so how often should kids be seeing their doctors for checkups? dr. patel: parents want to follow that routine schedule, and you will be able to ask your pediatrician or health provider about when shots are needed. hopefully one month, two months, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 2 years, and every year after that. you can always check in with the health care provider and say what vaccines does my child need at what age. you can go on the cdc website and look at a chart of all those vaccines as well. you mention it, we want parents to remember and be aware of this by talking to help her vita. the one thing we don't want, which unfortunately happens, is to see a disease reemerge and have that be the reason parents are asking about it. we have seen this happen with

tetanus, measles, whooping cough, and now with polio. karina: that was going to be my follow-up question. in london, we saw around one million children were offered the polio vaccine after the virus was found in sewage water there. can you fill us in on that, in is that something we should be concerned about here in the u.s.? dr. patel: we should absolutely be monitoring what is happening in new york state with the wastewater. for anyone who is not up-to-date with the polio vaccine, we just mentioned that potentially thousands of kids are not up-to-date with their vaccine requirements entering kindergarten and that could involve polio. at one time we had 20,000-30,000 kids a year becoming paralyzed from polio. we still see people today who have the aftershock of polio from back before we had the

vaccine. we still see cases across the world as well, which is why it is so important that we protect against this. in rockland county and orange county in york, the rates of vaccination from kids against polio is about 60%. we need at least 80% to achieve herd immunity. so we definitely have some work to do on vaccine awareness. i want to make sure all parents are well apparent -- aware of how important the vaccine is. karina: a team was deployed to new york to investigate the case in rockwood county. what exactly are they looking for and what analysis are they doing? where will that get us? dr. patel: i surmise the team will be taking a look at what exactly the community has with respect to resources, what the beliefs are, and to look to see if that wastewater surveillance will translate into anything. that could potentially mean hundreds of people getting infected.

they want to make sure there is an herd immunity to protect against that. if we had 200 kids get exposed and infected the polio, we know that at least one in that 200 will become paralyzed, and that is devastating. karina: i know it is ok to have anxiety about getting those shots. any advice to parents about easing the kids minds when they know they are going to the doctor to get that vaccine, to get that shot? dr. patel: totally, and the first thing parents already know without me saying anything is kids follow their parents bible or energy. kids are motivated -- follow their parents vibe or energy. even young kids, if you are smiling and you were born your kids, and my daughter got her -- got hers at six months, we were smiling and clapping.

use age-appropriate language are really young kids. talk about why they are a superhero in protecting their community. for older kids, you can explain what an antibody is. the older kids in high school want to know how it works, what is herd immunity, what is an antibody. when you're talking about an army building up its offense or your immune system being a team that stole the other teams playbook. karina: i feel like kids who got the covid vaccine, some of them were excited to get it because there were so much anticipation, parents explained it to them and they saw what happened to people early on, and they kind of understood the importance of that shot. so you make a very good point there. let's move on, we only have a few minutes left. let's talk about monkeypox. we know there is an effort to get more vaccines. what are the infection numbers like now that you are seeing, and is there any progress on

making those vaccines or other treatment options out there? dr. patel: the biggest news is what came out yesterday about the new strategy, to theoretically quintuple our supply by introducing the vaccines intradermally rather than subcutaneously. you can use a smaller amount of the vaccine. this is all based on a clinical trial from about seven years ago showing that intradermal at 1/5 the dose produces the same antibody immune response as subcutaneous. we still need to make sure there is awareness out there so providers know how to inject this properly, and there are no barriers in accessing the vaccine as well. still need to see improvement when it comes to supply with awareness and contact tracing and reaching out to vulnerable communities.

karina: dr. patel, thank you so much for your input on all those topics. we always appreciate your time. dr. patel: thank you. vaccines work. karina: we've seen it. i'm next, we will talk about cybersecurity in the new school year, how important it is to know exactly what your kids are looking at and what you can do. we will talk to an expert who will share

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karina: for many kids, the start of the school year is here, and has tablets and computers become a bigger part of the classroom, now is a good time to talk about cyber criminals. parents, we have some advice for you on how to protect your kids

and their information. joining us live to talk about that is david richardson, vice president of a cloud security company. thank you so much for being here, david. first, i think it is important to talk about where cyber criminals are targeting kids the most. is it through certain apps, or can it just be through their computers in general? where you see the cyber criminals out there infiltrating our computers, our tablets the most? david: it's really where students spend their time. things like social media, messaging applications, text messages, all of those avenues where students are spending their time that cyber criminals are looking as opportunities to communicate with students and try to trick them into clicking on a link they shouldn't lick on, downloading an app they shouldn't download, providing their username and password, etc. karina: can you go into some

more detail, maybe some examples of ways that cyber criminals are targeting kids? in some cases, you mentioned criminals act as though they are your child's friend, in their age group, and they try to friend him. i've done stories on this where fbi agents -- it's tragic in some cases. how do you prevent something like that from happening? david: you need to understand that social media accounts can be created by anybody, you can upload anybody's photo and use anybody's name. just because they claim to be someone your age are claim to be your teacher or somebody that you know, it doesn't mean it is actually them. you should confirm that they are who they say they are by interacting with that person in person. that's the best way to confirm it, the best way to confirm it

is a one-on-one conversation with someone. send them a message and confirm they received it and then you know that person is who they say they are. karina: these criminals are getting more clever and using new tricks and all of that. unfortunately, they do get through to some kids and through their computers. can you talk about some of the apps perhaps that parent should really be cautious of, maybe ones that bring in the most cyber criminals? david: i don't want to say anything negative about these apps themselves, but it is the places where students are spending their time. things like whatsapp, where it is free for a hacker to send an unlimited number of messages to different people, so you know it

is very easy and cost-effective for them to go and target people. all your social media apps, tiktok, instagram, facebook messenger, all of these are ripe sources for targeting students for scams or other hacking techniques. karina: so pre-much all of them. how familiar should parents be with kids devices? the school gives it to them, and knowing those privacy settings and parental controls. david: it is really important that you know what devices your students have, that have been given to him, what devices they are supposed to use in their school and what they are not, and that you have configured those devices in a secure way. some simple examples are, you really do need to keep your devices up to date. we all see these update notification saying we need to

reboot our phone or tablet to install an update. it is actually really important that. there are usually settings to have those updates happen automatically in the middle of the night while you sleep, but those updates contain critical fixes to problems with those devices that hackers can exploit. keeping your device up to date, it really tells a hacker that they shouldn't waste their time trying to hack new, they should go try to hack somebody else who has left their device out of date and has a lot more weaknesses that can allow them to get into that device. karina: that is good advice, a good reason to make those updates. what about the webcams? i have one right here and it looks like it is off. i have heard you have -- you need to cover those up when not in use. why is that? david: if somebody hacked your device, they can do things like remotely turn on your webcam or any microphones, and they can

use that to record you. they can use that material to blackmail you in the future. of course there is no amount of hacking of a device that will allow you to get past a sticky note or piece of tape or something that is physically covering the camera when it is not in use. karina: how important are strong passwords? it seems like it's so simple, make the pass were complicated, not your birthdate or not 12345. how important are those, and why? david: strong passwords are critically important. the problem today, we have so many accounts and so many different passwords floating around out there, and these accounts, the services that we use, unfortunately they get hacked all the time. and the usernames and passwords associated with them get leaked on the internet and on the dark web and hackers have access to

that information. so it is really important that you have a strong password that you can't guess, and think about social media and other things. your pet's name is not a good factor to be in your password. that is easy to guess. the year you were born is not a good thing, that is easy to look up online. it is important that passwords are unique because they will be involved in breaches, and when they are involved in breaches, the hackers will attempt to reuse that password everywhere that you might have a digital presence. they will keep guessing service after service, and even though it might be one website that has been breached over here, they will try to use that to get into your email account, your social media accounts, etc. if you are using the same password, they will be successful and they will be able to get into those accounts as well. karina: what about public wi-fi

networks? david: you should just treat that information like, don't do anything ultrasensitive on a public wi-fi network. karina: so maybe don't go into your bank account or anything like that. david: exactly. if you wouldn't feel comfortable with someone looking over your shoulder doing this, i would not do it on a public wi-fi account. but there is strong encryption and place these days for most websites, so it is not the same as it was a decade ago when every single thing you did on public wi-fi was being monitored. these days there is encryption place, but i still would not trust it for extremely sensitive operations. if sohn was looking over your shoulder, which is probably happening in a coffee shop anyway, treat public wi-fi with care. karina: lots of great information. i'm next, a victory for

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karina: today, san francisco schools are taking a historic step forward. the board of education voted to recognize eid as an official school holiday. it comes after arab students at a high school started a movement last year. the petition gained over 800 signatures and inspired change. join us live to talk about why this matters is a community leader with the arab resource and organizing center. thank you so much for being here. first, tell us about the resolution that was adopted today. what does it say? >> the resolution as it is written means that in the 2023-2024 school year, eid holiday will be recognized officially in the san francisco unified school district and the entire district will get the day

off. it will mean that students and faculty also get the day off as well. in the interim year there will be education efforts on behalf of the school board and school district to educate folks on these holidays. karina: this all started as a petition behind school students. how important was that? >> we see kind of the student centered, student led approach for our organizing work and our community approaches as kind of critical. this would not have gotten as far as it did without a student centered approach, without it being student led. once the petition got some steam, we helped craft the resolution and the community really mobilized around it. we have been asking for this kind of -- for several years before the pandemic. it is really mobilizing that we

see our efforts pay off in this way. karina: sfu is one of the first school districts to do this, do you know of others in california or across the country? >> we are the first in california. i believe new york has it, but definitely san francisco often is leading education around the country in recognizing, if you look and eight from an equity and varsity point. karina: why is this so important to the muslim and arab communities? what does it mean to the families of all the kids that go to school in that district? >> you should have seen it there at the night of, when we finally got there. we heard the final vote happened and all the kids jumped up, the

whole evening they were asking, are we winning? the whole community was all super enthusiastic about this. we have been asking for it for years, and to finally see our struggle in our culture and traditions recognized is incredible for us. so we are stoked and we thank the school board for their consideration. karina: i'm expecting a big celebration for next year for this holiday. >> i would imagine now that the kids get the day off, it might get them out in the streets to celebrate. karina: it's good to see what young people can do, to make something like this happen. thank you so much for your time, we really appreciate it. we will welcome you back next year during eid and you can let us know how it's going. we will continue in just a moment, but first a reminder,

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better bay area. join us. karina: thank you so much for joining us on this interactive show, "getting answers." tonight, breaking news. former president trump under oath. donald trump questioned for more than six hours by new york attorney general letitia james and her team. the former president invoking the fifth. today's deposition in a separate case, coming 48 hours after the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. that search part of a separate federal investigation. and we have new reporting on that search tonight. what fbi director christopher wray, who signed off on the raid, and who was appointed by former president trump, what he said today. jonathan karl with new reporting here. and dan abrams tonight on what this all means. also tonight, the dangerous and deadly storms as we come on the air. we have learned tonight of two u.s. army soldiers killed in a weather-related incident. and tonight, several states now under flood alerts. flood warnings in