Eben Brown and JT discuss vaccines

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fox correspondent Evan Brown joining us now for an update
on how many kids around the world are or are
not getting vaccines these days. The UN and other agencies
have some of the estimates out there right now. Evan.
You know, every time you start talking about vaccines, it
gets controversial with people weighing in on all different thoughts
on vaccines, whether it's COVID vaccine or just kids getting

(00:20):
vaccines for schools. They've increased in the amount kids are
getting over the years, you know. I know my grandkids
and my daughter, you know, son have been kind of
resting on the vaccines, and well, a lot of discussion
on vaccines. So where are we globally speaking.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, this is a report from the World Health Organization
in UNISF and it's focusing a lot on the DETAP
type vaccines, the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine, and around
the world, about nine out of ten infants newborns, which
translates to about one hundred and fifteen million of them
during the year twenty twenty four did get at least
the first dose of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis containing vaccine.

(00:57):
That's a pretty sprit good equivalences. Yeah, it's one hundred
and seventy one thousand or so more than in twenty
twenty three, and eighty five percent of young kids, translating
to roughly one hundred and nine million of them completed
all three of those DTP doses, you know, as per
the recommendations, So this is pretty good. There are about

(01:17):
fourteen or so million kids who never got a single
dose of DTP type vaccine, and that's mostly unchanged from
twenty twenty three, so that's that might be good. It
is up about a million and a half from twenty
nineteen when they started counting this stuff, but it wasn't
much of an increase a year to year from twenty
twenty three to twenty four, so I guess that's a

(01:38):
good thing. World Health and UNISEF points to their public
private partnerships with like GAVI, for instance, which has been
helping to deliver a lot of these vaccines to underdeveloped countries.
This is a kind of a survey of one hundred
and ninety five different countries, but at least one hundred
and thirty one of them have been reaching ninety percent

(02:01):
of children with that first dose of DTP since twenty nineteen,
and I think that's a pretty good number. You know,
there are some questions about funding going forward to World
Health and UNICEF both say that, you know, funding is
necessary to keep these efforts up, and you know, we'll
see how these things go. But these seem to be
some pretty good numbers, you know, worldwide, especially considering a

(02:22):
lot of their target countries are undeveloped where there's there's
a big problem with access, a multi problem with access.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know, I was really surprised to see that the
number is so high. I thought it was going to
be much lower than that. You know, as you mentioned
the big part of not being able to get it
delivered sometimes or in these countries that are underdeveloped, and
they're you know, very very rural, more rural than we
could even imagine being here in the United States. So
who leads the charge? Is it UNISSEF, is it the

(02:52):
Red Cross? Is it doctors with borders in getting to
these kids that are tough to get to in these.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Areas well, there's they all kind of work together at
some point and in different ways. You know that this
is mainly being you know, spearheaded by WHO and UNISEF
together they make a very large use of GAVI, which
is a public private partnership that tries to bring these
vaccines to lower income countries and try to shore up

(03:20):
global health security. You know, here in this country, I
know we're talking. We have a you know, a political
thing with vaccine skepticism and hesitancy and whatnot. But if
you want to have your kid vaccinated, you can get
that done very very very easily, often at low cost
to you. In some of these impoverished nations sub Saharan Africa,

(03:42):
they may not have the supply or easy access to
the supply. There may be a shortage of healthcare workers,
there's probably a shortage of clinics, and there's a transportation issue.
A lot of people, as you mentioned, living very rural
rurally in these countries, you know, may not have a
clinic or clinic type of play in their village and
so they might have to transit and that often means

(04:04):
going on foot. If they don't have assistance from these
types of efforts that might be able to either bring
vaccination clinics to the to the villages or provide transportation
to another location where they can get the vaccine and
then be brought back home. You know, these are issues
that we don't really have to deal with in this country.
I mean, you know, all respect to people who may

(04:27):
you know, may have issues in transportation and whatnot, don't
you don't have it like you do in some of
these countries.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
One hundred percent. And the problem is, you know, these
people need these vaccines. And we're not talking about iffy
vaccines here. We're talking about vaccines that have been around
forever and do good.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
In this case, the deteria and tetanus and protests, which
is whooping cough. These three illnesses can can very likely
kill infants. Yes, and so you know these types of
vaccines do save lives.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, that is some good news. Evan, thank you so
much for the update.