Some parents are hesitant to vaccinate 5-11-year-olds.
Today, we’re covering a coming fight over vaccines for young children, test-to-stay programs and social media advice for parents.
Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
Will parents vaccinate their kids?
Pfizer and BioNTech say their coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective in children from 5 to 11. The shots could be available to young children around Halloween, my colleague Apoorva Mandavilli reports.
For some parents, emergency authorization from the F.D.A. cannot come soon enough. But others are hesitant, my colleagues Sarah Mervosh and Dana Goldstein report.
Only about 40 percent of children ages 12 to 15 are fully vaccinated, compared with 66 percent of adults, according to federal data. Polling indicates that parental openness to vaccination decreases with a child’s age.
Even some vaccinated parents don’t intend to inoculate their kids immediately, in part because of the relatively small size of children’s trials.
One vaccinated mother in California said that she thought the potential risk seemed to her to outweigh the benefit, because young children have been far less likely than adults to become seriously sick.
A reader from Greenwich, Conn., is also waiting.
“This is good news,” the reader commented on Apoorva’s article, “but as I did with my 13-year-old, I’ll let a few million other little ones get vaccinated, with any rare side effects reported, before I get my 10-year-old vaccinated.”
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