Interest in COVID-19 vaccines for young children has remained low since regulators approved shots for those ages 6 months to 4 years old over the summer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that about 325,000 young children are fully vaccinated even though there are 18 million kids in that group nationwide.
Rates are low in places with high interest in the vaccines, generally — including in Washington, D.C., where 21% of the youngest kids have received one dose and 7.5% have received both doses, according to The Washington Post, which crunched local data.
The news outlet also found that states like Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have rates of less than 0.