Ten weeks after the FDA and CDC opened the door for children under 5 years old to receive Covid-19 vaccines, the national drive to get the youngest children protected is off to an underwhelming and uneven start
In some ways, experts said, the more deliberate approach is part of the transition to treating Covid-19 like a common endemic disease among many others that children are routinely vaccinated against. | Mary Altaffer/AP Photo.
“We know that children can have serious outcomes of disease, hospitalization and sadly, hundreds of kids have died from Covid,” Sarah Meyer, the chief medical officer of the CDC’s Immunization Services Division, told POLITICO. “Our message really is that no child should die of Covid. This is a vaccine-preventable disease now.”
Most states prohibit pharmacists from vaccinating children under age 3, and state and federal mass vaccination sites that bolstered earlier waves have largely shut down. Most kids in this group are also too young to attend school, another potential source of outreach. “It’s not just Covid that our children are behind on because they were not coming into the offices. So now is our opportunity to play catch-up,” said Stewart.
Still, according to the CDC, about 85 percent of children under age 5 live within 5 miles of a vaccination site. The agency has also reached out to providers through the Vaccines for Children network, a longstanding program aimed at administering vaccines for uninsured or underinsured children. “We have parents saying that junior got Covid and is OK, so why do I need to vaccinate him,” Stewart said.
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