In Bexar County, only 25% of currently eligible children are vaccinated, said Anita Kurian, assistant director of the Metropolitan Health District.
Children under age five will soon be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine, thanks to Friday's FDA approval.The last age group still unprotected from COVID-19 is finally eligible to get vaccinated against the virus.
“I have been watching the news constantly,” said Grace Marengo Sanchez, mother of a 3-year-old and 1-year-old. “Almost every week I would Google ‘under 5 vaccine’ and just see what the headlines were.” Dr. Mandie Tibball Svatek, pediatric hospitalist at University Health and associate professor at UT Health San Antonio, said a vaccine for babies, toddlers and preschoolers was delayed as dosage and efficacy were examined, and trial results have proven the vaccine is safe, with minimal side effects.
, only 18% of parents of children under 5 years of age said they would vaccinate their children against COVID.Because of that, she said, some parents may be less compelled to get their children vaccinated against COVID. She warned against that complacency, noting that in Bexar County, cases are slowly rising again.
As home tests have become widely available and community test sites have closed, many people are now testing at home, causing some cases to go unreported, said Dr. James Bowling, infectious disease specialist at University Health. Others, he said, have minimal symptoms and simply aren’t testing.
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