900K Kids Have Gotten Vax In First Week Of Availability

NPR reports:

Beloved stuffed animals in hand, they lined up at schools, pop-up clinics and children’s hospitals to do something that little kids generally hate to do: get a shot. COVID vaccinations for 5- to 11-year-olds began in earnest late last week, ramping up over the weekend and early this week.

By the end of the day on Wednesday, about 900,000 elementary school-age children will have gotten their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a White House official shared with NPR in advance of an announcement expected later in the day.

For the White House, this is an early and encouraging sign in the effort to vaccinate 5- to 11-year-olds, though it is impossible to tell from these initial numbers whether vaccinations will continue apace or hit a plateau of hesitancy as has happened with other age groups.

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White House officials expect that by the end of Wednesday, approximately 900,000 elementary-age children, or about 3% of the total group, will have gotten their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/gyBPEyd5Nh

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