When Can Kids and Teens Begin Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine?
When Can Kids and Teens, Begin Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine?.
To date, the number of fully vaccinated
Americans has exceeded 44 million.
Currently, COVID-19 vaccines have been
authorized only for people who
are age 16 or older.
With anxious parents hoping to return to
some form of normalcy, Moderna has begun
clinical trials of its vaccine for children.
Johnson & Johnson will also begin trials of
its vaccine for children this month.
[Clinical trials for children are] happening because all parents want to protect their kids, Dr. Steve Plimpton, KidCOVE Study, via CNN.
While Dr. Anthony Fauci has stated that COVID-19 vaccines
for children will likely not be available until 2022.
other researchers speculate that they
could be available as early as November.
Regardless, while parents and teachers will
be vaccinated by the time school starts in the fall, .
COVID-19 vaccinations for young
students will not be mandatory
To date, the number of fully vaccinated
Americans has exceeded 44 million.
Currently, COVID-19 vaccines have been
authorized only for people who
are age 16 or older.
With anxious parents hoping to return to
some form of normalcy, Moderna has begun
clinical trials of its vaccine for children.
Johnson & Johnson will also begin trials of
its vaccine for children this month.
[Clinical trials for children are] happening because all parents want to protect their kids, Dr. Steve Plimpton, KidCOVE Study, via CNN.
While Dr. Anthony Fauci has stated that COVID-19 vaccines
for children will likely not be available until 2022.
other researchers speculate that they
could be available as early as November.
Regardless, while parents and teachers will
be vaccinated by the time school starts in the fall, .
COVID-19 vaccinations for young
students will not be mandatory