Parents still want to know: Is COVID-19 really a problem for kids? Short answer: Yes.
nearly 400,000 kids under 5 have received at least one dosePediatrician Eliza Hayes Bakken has seen an initial rush of parents who signed up for appointments as soon as the vaccines became available. “There’s a huge push of families that want to be in that first group that’s vaccinated,” says Bakken, who treats kids at Oregon Health & Sciences University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland.
Getting young kids vaccinated may be a long, slow haul, says Adrianne Hammershaimb, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.. That number is “lower than we’d like, but it’s not surprising,” she says. COVID-19 vaccination has been extremely or very effective
at limiting the coronavirus’ spread, the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., reported on July 7. In Hammershaimb’s experience, the issue isn’t that most parents are anti-vaxxers or mistrust all vaccines. Rather, “parents are genuinely concerned about the unknown,” she says. There’sAs BA.5 continues to spark cases , parents are talking to doctors about COVID-19 risks, vaccine safety and vaccination timing.
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