Fewer than 50% of parents want the COVID vaccine for their youngest kids.
About 43% of U.S. parents of children aged 6 months to 4 years said they would not get their children a coronavirus shot, while another 27% said they were not yet certain what they will do, the Kaiser Family Foundation found in its July poll.
“We have no marker for that,” Patricia Stinchfield, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, told“Half the kids who come down with severe COVID are healthy kids, with no underlying conditions. So the idea of saying 'I'm going to skip this vaccine for my kid, we're not worried about COVID' is really to take a risk.”since they became eligible on June 18. That's compared to 18.
Others said lack of access was a significant barrier. This concern was expressed by more Black and Hispanic parents than white parents, the findings showed.