Few parents are getting their young children vaccinated against COVID-19, despite the Biden administration’s much-anticipated rollout of the shots for children under the age of five more than a month ago.
As of last week, just 4.7% of U.S. children aged 6 months to four years old had received at least one dose of the shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Parents are not lining up for the shots, which became available June 18 after the Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines for children as young as six months.