Want to recognize the families here, the parents, the children, all of those who support kids, even if you're not directly related to them, your family to many of you have sustained great losses during this pandemic. But despite that, you have dug deep within yourself and found a way to support your kids to reach out and be there for one another. And you've been the backbone of your communities at a time when your communities really needed support. So I want you to know how grateful we are for you today as well. We're here today to speak about an incredibly exciting milestone that we've arrived at this is the arrival of a vaccine that can protect our children and is adapted to kids who are under 12. I've been waiting for this moment for many of us parents have as well. Recently, as you know, the FDA and CDC gave their authorization recommendation for COVID-19 vaccines for kids aged five through 11. And what I want to convey to parents today by Dr. Biden has underscored so often and so effectively to communities across America is that this vaccine will help protect our children and our communities. That is the bottom line about this vaccine for kids five through 11. And the reason it is so is because we know two critical things about the vaccine. Number one, it works, it's highly effective. And number two, it has a very strong safety profile. And this vaccine was tailored for kids. It's at a lower dose, it was it's about a third of the adult dose. But it also went through clinical trials that are specific for five through 11 year olds went through a careful and rigorous review process with independent scientists and with government scientists. And in their review, they follow the same high standards that we follow for any vaccine for children. And here's what they found. The side effects seen in the trials included some soreness in the arm at hay fever, that these lasted for a day or two, and left our children with protection against COVID-19. Very importantly, based on no serious adverse effects in these studies, that's so important, because there's nothing more important to us parents than the safety of our children. But what about the effectiveness, I'm happy to say that in the trials, a vaccine was found to be over 90% effective at protecting our children from symptomatic COVID-19. As far as vaccines go, that's a very, very strong result. So all of this is very reassuring news. And the reason this is so important, because is there's a narrative out there, that kids aren't affected by COVID-19. That's not a big deal if our kids deal with virus. And I want to tell you that that's that's not true. Because while our kids are less at risk for COVID-19 for bad outcomes, and COVID, then older adults, we have had hundreds of children who have lost their life, and COVID-19. During this pandemic, we've had 1000s of children who have been hospitalized because of COVID during this pandemic 1000s who have experienced, you know, sort of multi system inflammatory syndromes which affect multiple organs, including the heart really knows this better LMU Children's Hospital have cared for many of those children over this past year and a half. But our kids have also suffered something else, which is a social and emotional impact of this pandemic. School Sports arts programs have been interrupted. Children have missed out have a chance to spend time with grandparents to get together with friends that have sleepovers and birthday parties. And the kids are now struggling with anxiety, depression and loneliness as a result, this vaccine will not only help keep our children healthy and safe, there will help return them to so many of the activities that they need. They love that they're finally there's one important issue I want to warn foreign parents. And that is the danger of health misinformation. Now, as soon as the vaccine was authorized, we already knew that parents were getting inundated in their inboxes. And their social media feeds on text spreads with false claims about the vaccine. And we've seen this actually throughout the vaccination effort even for adults. But that's why I'm asking parents today to be careful about where you get your information from, and to seek answers from credible sources, like your doctors, like nurses, like your children's hospital like this one, your local Department of Health and the CDC. Finally, I want to end by just saying thank you to all of you once again, I had while I had the great privilege of serving as Surgeon General and as a physician, my most proud title, the most important title.