More than 18 million children under age 5 in America are now eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 according to the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There’s just one problem: Amid rampant misinformation and perceived delay, more than half of parents surveyed with kids under age 5 report not […]
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Schools, pediatricians look to make up lost ground on non-COVID vaccinations
By Kate Ruder, KHN WESTMINSTER — Melissa Blatzer was determined to get her three children caught up on their routine immunizations on a recent Saturday morning at a walk-in clinic in this Denver suburb. It had been about a year since the kids’ last shots, a delay Blatzer chalked up to the pandemic. Two-year-old Lincoln Blatzer, […]
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The story of the historic COVID vaccine trial for kids at Children’s Hospital Colorado
An elementary school boy came to every appointment in a kid-sized lab coat, a children’s book about mRNA vaccines in his arms. Another child announced she was “helping science.” And Kaniya Smith told her friends in the fourth grade that she was taking the coronavirus vaccine to test it out for the rest of them. […]